Comment

Overnight Open Thread

140
GunstarGreen7/23/2012 8:41:45 am PDT

re: #136 ggt

I think continuing the program shows that the system values money and tradition over children.

It’s shameful.

This has always been the case. When a university is faced with fiscal shortfalls, what do they cut? Administrative compensation? Nope. Sports? Nope. Actual educational components? You bet your ass.

American university is not about learning, it’s about paying your club dues for a slip of paper that gets you into the non-shitty part of the workforce. And as those club dues have become more accessible to the general public, that slip of paper has become less and less valuable as a pass into the non-shitty part of the workforce while other, more exclusive means have begun to supplant it.