Will the education industry wake up before it's too late?

Higher Education Has Become a Partisan Issue

It's the Atlantic, so the ideological bend is predictable but they're not wrong. When even Progressives (D's) see education as too expensive, failing to deliver value and too ideological it's easy to understand why Conservatives (R's) are coming to loath the education industry.

So Alaska has pulled the plug and is cutting college education funding by over 40% this year. To describe this as cataclysmic would be a serious understatement.

The trendlines in education simply are not sustainable - costs rising far faster than inflation with little to nothing to show for the money spent. Campuses that have become identitarian swamps that do more to squelch learning and thought than further it. The professoriate has become so intellectually monotonous and strident as to make open inquiry impossible. Colleges with more administrators than instructors preying upon students who are seen as little more than revenue streams to be knowingly condemned to decades of indentured servitude.

How long and to what extent this can be sustained is an open question but what can't be sustained won't be. The question for those who care about education shouldn't be what can be done to muscle through the trainwreck but what must be changed so that there isn't one.

So, simply put, change is inevitable and tipping points are not gradual events. The only decision educators have available to them is whether they will bend a knee to the communities they serve or be cast aside in the coming upheavals.

Provide value. Seek balance. Truly embrace diversity, especially of thought. Or die.

The Chicago Principles

Submitted July 06, 2019 at 04:01AM by Barking_at_the_Moon https://ift.tt/2FUCUGY