Universities Will Struggle In The Future

[Anonymous]

[media]

[cc]

I want to get a degree after my children are finished their education, and working..



I'd like to do it online.

Good for you. A great plan

[Anonymous]

This cancel culture not critical thinking.



Pan-African studies professor tells whites that for Juneteenth, 'Please don't ask if you can come to the cookout'



California State University Los Angeles professor of pan-African studies Melina Abdullah issued a tweet telling white individuals not to request to attend a Juneteenth cookout.



"Attention white people... Please don't ask if you can come to the cookout... #Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks. It should be #Reparations day for white folks," Abdullah tweeted on Monday.



In response to someone who described her comments as "extremely racist," Abdullah replied, "1. Define racism. 2. Why do you think that?"



Someone else asked Abdullah, "Do you seriously exclude your white father on account of his skin color? Is that progress?"

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[Anonymous]

A new study in the journal Nature has found that U.S. universities hire most of their tenure-track faculty members from the same handful of elite institutions. The finding suggests that academic researchers have "little opportunity to obtain jobs at institutions considered more elite than the ones at which they were trained," a summary of the study states.



To gather their data, researchers looked into the academic backgrounds of 295,089 faculty members at more than 350 institutions. They found that 80% of all U.S.-trained faculty received their doctorate at just 20.4% of universities. The five most popular universities—UC Berkeley, Harvard, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stanford—accounted for one in eight faculty members.



The analysis also showed that, depending on the academic field, only 5–23% of faculty members worked at an institution deemed more prestigious than the one at which they earned their PhD.



"It's not surprising, but it is jarring" to see the data, said Leslie Gonzales, a social scientist who studies higher education at Michigan State University in East Lansing. "There's so much brilliant work and training of brilliant scholars that's happening outside of this tiny sliver" of institutions, and it's being overlooked, Gonzales added.



"Is the system a meritocracy?" asked Daniel Larremore, a computational scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-author of both papers. "In peer review, no; in the spread of ideas, no; and in faculty hiring, surely no."

[Herman]

Students' ACT scores hit a more than 30-year record low, according to the organization that administers the college admissions test. Meanwhile, some universities have opted to drop admission testing requirements altogether.

High school students' results have been declining for six consecutive years. Approximately 1.4 million students took the test this year, an increase from the previous year, and the average composite score declined by 0.3 points from 2022.

According to ACT, between 2022 and 2023, the average mathematics score dropped 0.3 points, English 0.4 points, reading 0.3 points, and science 0.3 points.

The average scores for mathematics, reading, and science were below ACT College Readiness Benchmarks, the minimum scores required for students to have a "high probability" of success in a college-level course.

ACT reported that four in 10 high school seniors met "none of the college readiness benchmarks" this year, with 70% failing to meet mathematics standards.

[Herman]

She gets caught multiple times claiming other people's published works as her own and she says she is a victim of racism.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/harvard-president-claudine-gay-resigns-in-disgrace-following-new-heap-of-plagiarism-accusations?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240102BREAKING-ClaudineGay&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
laudine Gay threw in the towel Tuesday, resigning as president of Harvard University after getting hit with six new plagiarism complaints.

Gay said in a possibly original letter to the school community, "It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president. This is not a decision I came to easily."

"After consultation with members of the Corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual," continued Gay.

Gay painted herself as a victim, suggesting she found it frightening "to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus."

Gay became the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1 after evidently playing up her leftist bona fides as Edgerley Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where she brought new emphasis to climate alarmism and identity politics.

Ahead of her inauguration, Gay stated, "Today, we are in a moment of remarkable and accelerating change — socially, politically, economically, and technologically."

It appears that Gay was unable to keep up with the accelerated change.

Gay's presidency, the shortest-lived in Harvard's history, was dogged in recent months by multiple allegations of plagiarism and concerns over her response to growing anti-Semitism on campus.

The Washington Free Beacon obtained a complaint filed Monday with the university, bringing the plagiarism allegations against Gay to nearly 50, implicating seven of her 17 published works, including her 1997 doctoral thesis.

The latest complaint alleges that in a 2001 article, Gay plagiarized nearly a page of material straight from University of Wisconsin political science professor David Canon's 1999 book "Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts" without quotations or so much as a citation.

The university recently launched an investigation into the allegations against Gay.
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[Biggie Smiles]

Gay painted herself as a victim, suggesting she found it frightening "to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus."

Putting aside the complete bogus nature of the failed "it's racist claim" because it's utter bullshit

she's upset because the tactics she supported when they were used against people on the right were used against her?

that's called "chickens coming home to roost"

dumb fucking bitch

good riddance

[Herman]

Putting aside the complete bogus nature of the failed "it's racist claim" because it's utter bullshit

she's upset because the tactics she supported when they were used against people on the right were used against her?

that's called "chickens coming home to roost"

dumb fucking bitch

good riddance

Good riddance indeed.

[Lokmar]

Gay painted herself as a victim, suggesting she found it frightening "to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus."

Yea, I hated her because she's black. If they replaced her with plagiarizing POTUS joe, I'd TOTALLY be A-OK with that!

WTF, over?

[Biggie Smiles]

Good riddance indeed.

The racism card in the US is so fucking played at this point

Sure there are pockets of racism throughout the country

but this "systemic" racism shit? Do these assholes even understand the meaning of the word "systemic"?

morons

[Biggie Smiles]

That bitch looks like urkel

For that alone I'd be demanding she resign

[Herman]

The racism card in the US is so fucking played at this point

Sure there are pockets of racism throughout the country

but this "systemic" racism shit? Do these assholes even understand the meaning of the word "systemic"?

morons

Nope. They don't.