Higher Education and its state

Victor Davis Hanson: Now That’s a Higher Education Bubble  "The point is not to bash the students or the faculty, but to ask the university to reexamine the way it does business.

"Maybe raising admission standards would improve the quality of student, end the trend toward watered-down classes, and encourage those who do not belong at CSU to invest their time more productively in the work place. As it is now, over 50 percent of incoming freshmen in CSU must take remedial classes to qualify for university courses; why are they there in the first place?"

We can't reverse the spiral unless we strike at the causes of decline.
"The situation is rather dire: the products of our education system administer, teach, vote, and otherwise direct the course the country is to take. The social harm inherent in that process is set to continue at an accelerating pace."....
"There are other concerns, too, lest we forget. While they lie at the root, we bemoan their consequences and say little about causes. Truly better education for all who are capable of benefiting from it provides the only realistic path out of the morass." Dan Miller

UC Santa Barbara Student Government Tries to Derail David Horowitz Event, Lies About It "The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) student government has unconstitutionally discriminated against the UCSB College Republicans by twice denying funding for a lecture tonight by David Horowitz because of his conservative views."  Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

David Brooks: It’s Not About You  "...many graduates are told to: Follow your passion, chart your own course, march to the beat of your own drummer, follow your dreams and find yourself. This is the litany of expressive individualism, which is still the dominant note in American culture.
"But, of course, this mantra misleads on nearly every front. "