The Weekender: Wuts Rong with Hire Ed?
Three stories, perfectly packed for your weekend. Today's edition: examining higher education in the United States as it wrestles with protests, declining standards, and burgeoning administrations.
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What in the world is happening on college campuses?
You could ask this and be talking about radically different things. You could be referencing the cost of getting an undergraduate college degree. You could be referencing the increasing number of administrators. You could be referencing the protests erupting around the country in support of Hamas or the violent protests that have been wracking campuses over the last decade in reaction to speech and ideas with which students disagree. The state of our higher education is bleak. And these are the students who will become the leaders and managers who run the country for the next century.
Our first story is a quick hit, a funny reflection on how student populations have remained steady while administrative positions have multiplied. The second is a more serious examination of declining standards and grade inflation and how that impacts our psychological view of self. The third is specifically focused on the protests happening at Columbia. Is it meaningful momentum toward a brighter future or a misguided movement?
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