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CNBC:
There are over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States, but Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen says that half are bound for bankruptcy in the next few decades.
Christensen is known for coining the theory of disruptive innovation in his 1997 book, "The Innovator's Dilemma." Since then, he has applied his theory of disruption to a wide range of industries, including education.
In his recent book, "The Innovative University," Christensen and co-author Henry Eyring analyze the future of traditional universities, and conclude that online education will become a more cost-effective way for students to receive an education, effectively undermining the business models of traditional institutions and running them out of business.
What percentage of their graduates will be bankrupt?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Wednesday September 05 2018, @06:39PM (4 children)
Open your mind and see the full horror. The modern American (and now Western) university IS a religious institution. They are in fact functioning mostly as religious seminaries. And they are violently anti-intellectual because Cultural Marxism is not a religion capable of withstanding any reflection or criticism. Critical Theory is designed only to destroy, not create.
The older Christian Western Civilization it has now replaced was capable of sustaining The Enlightenment, Progressivism can't sustain a debate on bathrooms without resorting to violence to end the debate.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday September 05 2018, @08:37PM (3 children)
Have you attended university recently, out of curiosity? Because while your description perfectly matches right-wing characterizations of what universities are like, that doesn't match my experience of attending one, nor my experience working for a different one. Oh, and my alma mater is sometimes cited as the ur example of a misguided liberal institution controlled by anti-intellectual cultural marxists or what have you.
For what it's worth, my alma mater, which again is often the target of this kind of criticism:
- Had active fairly conservative student organizations like Young Republicans and an evangelical Christian group who ran Sunday morning services. These groups had significant membership.
- Had avowed conservatives on the faculty.
- Regularly had satires of liberalism published in the student papers. For example, a buddy of mine wrote a comic strip for a while called "My So-Called Left" that was specifically poking at the campus socialist groups.
- Also had regular satires of liberalism just pop up randomly on campus. For instance, one group advertised a talk on "The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx". The next day, another set of posters popped up looking almost identical but advertising a talk on "The Revolutionary Ideas of Ronald Reagan".
- The economics course I took taught Mankiw, Friedman, and Keynes, not Marx or Stiglitz or Galbraith. I realize that you probably find those guys still too liberal, because they aren't von Mises, Hayek, or Fama, but it's still a long way from Marxism.
- The English course I took taught, among other mostly-long-dead authors, Heinlein.
- As far as sustained debates on bathrooms, lots of bathrooms were co-ed, because nobody cared enough to do sex-segregated bathrooms. The actual raging debate at the time had to do with trying to force the school into allowing co-ed dorm rooms for people who wanted to do that.
- Was regularly visited by avowed conservatives like Arthur Laffer. They were able to speak without incident beyond some questions they couldn't answer very well. The speaker that got the harshest reception was part of the Clinton administration.
- I never once observed a faculty member attempt to suppress conservative ideas if they were well-supported and well-argued and relevant.
- We were reasonably well-behaved towards protesters, including a conservative preacher telling us we were all fornicators doomed to hell, and a visit by the Westboro Baptist Church.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 05 2018, @09:26PM
I'm not sure why you would bother.
jmorris has a fixed and very limited view of the world, as his right-wing talking point comments show.
He uses terms like "Cultural Marxism" and is trying to pretend that Christianity was a supporter of the Enlightenment, instead of the oppressors they really were.
He also wrote:
as if it isn't the weirdo right-wing Christians in some parts of the US that are obsessed by which bathrooms people use.
At least you provided some context and a few real world examples to back your point up, so thanks.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday September 05 2018, @09:34PM
UCB?
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday September 06 2018, @03:12AM
Can't offhand find the article I wanted (by Jonathan Haidt, IIRC) but this one skims over the same topic:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/ [washingtontimes.com]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.