1. Ataques Políticos y Desmantelamiento de la Educación Pública.
El archivo revela una profunda preocupación por los esfuerzos coordinados para socavar la educación superior, especialmente por parte de movimientos conservadores y decisiones gubernamentales que buscan limitar el acceso y la financiación, afectando particularmente a las humanidades y a profesiones esenciales como la enfermería.
- Conservatism in this country as a movement has actively undermined higher education for decades.
- Theyve been trying to destroy education for years. They found its easier to get people to do it to themselves.
- The trump administrations move to redefine what counts as a professional degree, effectively excluding nursing and cutting off access to student loans, is yet another attack on the american people.
- The people trying to grab and consolidate all power to benefit their cronies understand the power of a humanities education as they try to destroy all humanities and public education.
- Uneducated people are easier to control. Only the wealthy will be able to be educated. A fuedal society.
2. Devaluación del Título y el Modelo de Negocio Universitario.
Existe un consenso de que el valor de los títulos universitarios ha disminuido, mientras que el costo se ha disparado. Las instituciones son criticadas por operar como negocios enfocados en la rentabilidad en lugar de la educación, lo que obliga a los estudiantes a endeudarse sin garantías de empleo digno.
- New poll 63 of americans now say a four-year college degree isnt worth the cost.
- No institution that is run as a business is for the benefit of the people it claims to serve. Universities have become money making machines run by businessmen whose sole purpose is to squeeze as much money from their marks as humanly possible. Education is a sideline.
- It really was hubris to turn college into a mandatory next step for most people to get a decent paying entry level job without making it free for everyone in the first place.
- My dream is that we build a society where people dont need a college degree to get good wages and benefits, so that students like this who clearly have zero interest in intellectual pursuits dont have to waste both their and their professors time.
- College is really cruel. These 18 year-olds who are barely on their own are signing loans for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars and expected to know what they want to do for the rest of their lives.
3. Deterioro de la Calidad Académica y la Capacidad de Pensamiento Crítico.
Se observa una preocupación generalizada por la disminución de los estándares académicos, la falta de habilidades básicas en los estudiantes (como la escritura y el seguimiento de instrucciones) y la incapacidad de las universidades para fomentar el pensamiento crítico, a menudo por la presión de evitar conflictos o por la incompetencia administrativa.
- I remember being a freshman in college and meeting so many people who had somehow been admitted despite not being able to think critically, only parroting their parents and getting mad when they were forced to learn anything they didnt already know.
- If all it takes to pass is write third grade level shit and then cry like a baby when you get failed for it, what good is that degree?
- University admins are consistently some of the most cowardly, risk averse people in the world, trying to please everyone leaning no one happy.
- Begging people with these shitty takes to consider that the economic, political, social circumstances of students now are not what they were when their instructors did their undergrads decades ago.
- I love my students, who are a good crop of young people. Three weeks ago they were assigned group presentations by my ta, and 95 of them had no memory of what they were assigned. Even in good students i see an increasingly lack of ability to follow instructions.
4. El Impacto en Profesores y el Personal Académico.
Los educadores, desde profesores titulares hasta personal de apoyo y estudiantes de posgrado, enfrentan condiciones laborales erosionadas, precarización, agotamiento y la amenaza constante de ser blanco de ataques políticos o administrativos por mantener estándares académicos.
- Academia in australia feels like the hunger games. We have no security. Extreme precarity for junior academics that can go on for decades.
- Even an assistant professor tenure-track but untenured, in the us system has job precarity! and thats who they target, every time -- people they know they can do real damage to, and who the university will not necessarily mobilize to defend.
- The perceived altruism not withstanding, ive never experienced a profession of people who vocally hate their jobs more than teachers.
- The reason people arent trying harder in college and cheating all the time is because this professor put in far more effort into her critique than the student whos paper failed, and shes on administrative leave now giving a shit is an insane thing to do when you see what happens to the job-doers.
- I think theres a lot less of that now honestly not because academics no longer care about students, but because their working conditions have been so eroded that actually theres just no slack in the system to go above and beyond.