The Decline and Fall of American Higher Education
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/demographics/20060124/5/1732
In this era of fierce global competition, nations with the best job training and higher education systems will lead the pack. Sadly we in the U.S. seem bent on sabotaging what has traditionally been one of our greatest resources -- education at all levels. In the 1950s a higher percentage of African Americans in the U.S. attended college (segregated ones for the most part) than Brits as a whole.
Now we are sliding, sliding down a grim slope where our most talented potential academics are being abused and more than 50% of those pursuing higher academic degrees are dropping away from such careers in the face of the narrowing odds of ever obtaining a full-time job in a university to support themselves and families, let alone being able to pay off their academic debts.
The website above tells the sad tale of things in NYC -- but the pattern is widespread in all of North America where CEOs (academic ones too) walk away with massive fortunes following a few years in a top office, whether effective leaders or disasters. And aspiring academics are tossed away on the trash heaps of abusive academic institutions.
Read through the article and its sub websites and weep for our future!
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
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In this era of fierce global competition, nations with the best job training and higher education systems will lead the pack. Sadly we in the U.S. seem bent on sabotaging what has traditionally been one of our greatest resources -- education at all levels. In the 1950s a higher percentage of African Americans in the U.S. attended college (segregated ones for the most part) than Brits as a whole.
Now we are sliding, sliding down a grim slope where our most talented potential academics are being abused and more than 50% of those pursuing higher academic degrees are dropping away from such careers in the face of the narrowing odds of ever obtaining a full-time job in a university to support themselves and families, let alone being able to pay off their academic debts.
The website above tells the sad tale of things in NYC -- but the pattern is widespread in all of North America where CEOs (academic ones too) walk away with massive fortunes following a few years in a top office, whether effective leaders or disasters. And aspiring academics are tossed away on the trash heaps of abusive academic institutions.
Read through the article and its sub websites and weep for our future!
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollegeConversation
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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