{"id":236819,"date":"2022-12-29T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236819"},"modified":"2022-12-29T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:18:15","slug":"universities-are-nothing-but-baby-sitters-for-progressive-idiots-that-need-safe-spaces-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236819","title":{"rendered":"Universities are nothing but baby sitters for progressive idiots that need safe spaces now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"236825\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=236825\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-943.png?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-943\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-943.png?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-943.png?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-943.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-943.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-943.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentwatchblog.com\/todays-universities-are-nothing-but-baby-sitters-for-libera-progressive-idiots-that-need-safe-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">investmentwatchblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"236823\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=236823\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-942.png?fit=600%2C429&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,429\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-942\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-942.png?fit=600%2C429&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-942.png?resize=723%2C517&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236823\" width=\"723\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-942.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-942.png?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In a famous exchange in the&nbsp;<em>The Sun Also Rises<\/em>, Ernest Hemingway wrote:&nbsp;\u201cHow did you go bankrupt?\u201d Bill asked.&nbsp;\u201cTwo ways,\u201d Mike said.&nbsp;\u201cGradually, then suddenly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGradually\u201d and \u201csuddenly\u201d applies to higher education\u2019s implosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 1990s \u201cculture wars\u201d universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were unsustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Their growing manipulation of blanket federal student loan&nbsp;guarantees, and part-time faculty and graduate teaching assistants always was suicidal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Left-wing indoctrination, administrative bloat, obsessions with racial preferences, arcane, jargon-filled research, and campus-wide intolerance of diverse thought short-changed students, further alienated the public\u2014and often enraged alumni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last 30&nbsp;years, enrollments in the humanities and history&nbsp;crashed. So did tenure-track faculty positions. Some $1.7 trillion in federally backed student loans have only greenlighted inflated tuition\u2014and masked the contagion of political indoctrination and watered-down courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But \u201cgradually\u201d imploding has now become \u201csuddenly.\u201d Zoom courses, a declining pool of students, and soaring costs all&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/05\/colleges-struggle-with-enrollment-declines-underfunding-post-covid.html\">prompt the public to question the college experience altogether<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Nationwide undergraduate enrollment&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeltnietzel\/2022\/10\/20\/college-enrollment-decline-continues-but-at-a-slower-rate-according-to-new-report\/?sh=203ca06b3910\">has dropped<\/a>&nbsp;by more than 650,000 students in a single year\u2014or over 4 percent alone from spring 2021 to 2022, and some 14 percent in the last decade. Yet the U.S. population still increases by about 2 million people a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Men account for about 71 percent of the current shortfall of students. Women number&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/richardvedder\/2021\/06\/14\/why-do-colleges-dislike-men-the-disappearing-collegiate-male\/?sh=658cc2297850\">almost 60 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of all college students\u2014an all-time high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Monotonous professors hector students about \u201ctoxic masculinity,\u201d as \u201cgender\u201d studies proliferate. If the plan was to drive males off campus, universities have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The number of history majors has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdstandardnow.com\/home\/the-ongoing-history-crisis-as-universities-cut-staff-americans-are-still-interested-in-learning-about-our-past\">collapsed by 50 percent in just the last 20 years<\/a>. Tenured history positions have declined by one-third to half at major state universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the last decade alone, English majors across the nation\u2019s universities&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2022-10-24\/college-humanities-decline\">have fallen by a third<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At Yale University,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yaledailynews.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/09\/draft-report-shows-administrative-size-and-salaries-soared-as-faculty-hiring-stalled\/\">administrative positions<\/a>&nbsp;have soared&nbsp;over 150&nbsp;percent in the last two decades. But the number of professors increased by just 10 percent. In a new low\/high, Stanford recently enrolled&nbsp;16,937 undergraduate and graduate students, but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-stanford-guide-to-acceptable-words-elimination-of-harmful-language-initiative-11671489552?mod=hp_opin_pos_1\">lists 15,750 administrative staff<\/a>\u2014in near one-to-one fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the past, such&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/2022\/08\/administrative-bloat-harms-teaching-and-learning\/\">costly praetorian bloat would have sparked a faculty rebellion<\/a>. Not now. The new six-figure salaried \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d commissars are feared and exempt from criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2020, the old proportional-representation admissions quotas have expanded into weird \u201creparatory\u201d admissions. Purported \u201cmarginalized populations\u201d have often been admitted at levels greater than percentages in the general population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Consequently, \u201cproblematic\u201d standardized tests are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/11\/what-does-an-sat-score-mean-in-a-test-optional-world.html\">damned as biased and antithetical to \u201cdiversity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taxprof.typepad.com\/taxprof_blog\/2022\/12\/students-sue-usc-for-reporting-false-data-to-us-news-to-goose-its-ranking.html\">Students Sue USC For Reporting False Data To U.S. News To Goose Its Ranking.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018USC intentionally falsified data to inflate their U.S. News ranking, and 2U used the false numbers to pad their profits,\u2019 said Eric Rothschild, litigation director of the National Student Legal Defense Network.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">h\/t John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a famous exchange in the\u00a0The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote:\u00a0\u201cHow did you go bankrupt?\u201d Bill asked.\u00a0\u201cTwo ways,\u201d Mike said.\u00a0\u201cGradually, then suddenly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":236825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-943.png?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-ZBF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236827,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236819\/revisions\/236827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}