Oh that was deliberate. They need peons and worker bees.

yes, that's exactly why it was shared *widely* and not directly to you!

I'm not MAGA in the SLIGHTEST but having lived through 9/11 in person (literally saw the whole thing happen in front of me), I have reasons to believe it wasn't what we were told, either. Things looked different in real life than they did on television.

The PA State System of Higher Education is presently in the process of killing viable self sufficient arts programs which teach transferable education skills such as critical thinking and creative problem finding/solving.

"unfit and illiterate" and we knew this already...

The six brain cells between those ears aren't even embarrassed about that ridiculous pile of slop she wrote.

You can also see their lovely touch on the treatment of faculty and theft of their governance (oh, hi ACTA), less tenure-track positions and heaps of poorly-paid contingent workers - cheap, replaceable labor to cut costs - CLASSICAL neoliberal logic. It's exhausting.

The fact that so many people are convinced, truly, that this is all that higher education is for, that learning for learning's sake is somehow "bad" or a time waste shows that the concerted efforts of people like Charles Koch have been successful.

This is such bullshit. Higher ed should be using sports to generate money that goes into academics.

lol yeah i ripped this shit to shreds, too.