The Decline Of Higher Education Continues

Social Work May Be Higher Education's Most Ideologically Captured Discipline

Higher education continues to face intense criticism for its declining relevance to public life and its diminishing value to the average American. Vanderbilt and Washington University’s (WashU) April report on the humanities concluded that politicization, chiefly from the left, “threaten[s] to distort the enterprise” of disinterested scholarly inquiry, what the committee comes to call the “soul” of the […] The post Social Work May Be Higher Educ…

The Decline Of Higher Education Continues

The Decline Of Higher Education Continues Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com, During my second career teaching high school English, I noticed several darkly funny but disturbing trends in “higher” education.  They were fueled by three primary drivers: abandoning merit, the federal government taking over the student loan industry, and DEI hysteria. It was Barack Obama who federalized the student loan industry, pushing the idea that…