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VICE News reports
An information and intelligence shift has emerged in America's national security state over the last two decades, and that change has been reflected in the country's educational institutions as they have become increasingly tied to the military, intelligence, and law enforcement worlds. This is why VICE News has analyzed and ranked the 100 most militarized universities in America.
Initially, we hesitated to use the term militarized to describe these schools. The term was not meant to simply evoke robust campus police forces or ROTC drills held on a campus quad. It was also a measure of university labs funded by US intelligence agencies, administrators with strong ties to those same agencies, and, most importantly, the educational backgrounds of the approximately 1.4 million people who hold Top Secret clearance in the United States.
But ultimately, we came to believe that no term sums up all of those elements better than militarized. Today's national security state includes a growing cadre of technicians and security professionals who sit at computers and manage vast amounts of data; they far outnumber conventional soldiers and spies. And as the skills demanded from these digital warriors have evolved, higher education has evolved with them.
The 100 schools named in the VICE News rankings produce the greatest number of students who are employed by the Intelligence Community (IC), have the closest relationships with the national security state, and profit the most from American war-waging.
[...] Twenty of the top 100 schools that instruct people working in intelligence agencies, the military, and the worlds of law enforcement and homeland security--including their private contractor counterparts--are effectively online diploma mills. Twelve are for-profit companies; several didn't exist before 9/11. The schools have become so important that two of them, American Military University (No. 2) and the University of Phoenix (No. 3), rank near the top of the list based on the sheer number of their graduates working in the Top Secret world.
Seventeen of the 100 top schools are in the Washington, DC area, reflecting the concentration of all things national security around the nation's capital. The University of Maryland handily outranks all other schools at number one, while Georgetown University (No. 10), George Washington University (No. 4), and American University (No. 20)--all considered among the country's 10 best schools for the study of international relations--rank among the top 25 most militarized schools.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday November 12 2015, @09:24AM
Alright, let's get this straight.
Your reasoning is broken. Maybe many spies are incompetent, but not all of them. Have all of them attended diploma mills? Was that even a claim?
Not so much that the spooks are smart, but that they are loyal. Princeton used to be the fons et origina, but now, who knows (see, "The Good Shepard", people who can take being pissed on!). When after WWII the GI Bill came into force, a whole lot of working class peoples got themselves some higher educations. That made them vote Democratic, since they had some education. So, to put and end to that, there has been an attempt to limit veterans educational benefits, and failing that, to channel them to the diploma mills and fundie "Universitys". And then they go into career spook jobs, with no idea of what they are defending, or how to best go about it! It is almost like Mighty Buzzard, jmorris, khallow and frojack were in charge of the Central Intelligence Organization! Ha! How funny would that be? If it were not true? So, yes, all of them.
(Hint to CIA: Just because someone has been on "mission" to a country, this does not mean they actually understand either the country, or the langauge, from other than "would you like to be a Mormon?" point of view.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @02:46PM
That made them vote Democratic, since they had some education.
If these people were intelligent, they very likely wouldn't vote for Democrats or Republicans. I notice you merely said "some education"; Maybe they would be less likely to be so foolish if they had a good education?