A Duke University professor had the courage to say that "diversity training" was a waste of time.
You guessed it. He had to resign. The leftists at the school made his life miserable, and he did what he thought he had to do.
Diversity training, like many college courses, is a waste of time. The time it takes to undergo this "training" takes time away from other studies like engineering, medicine, science, history, English, business administration, and other corp courses that one needs to make a living in our modern society.
Every year about this time, we can bet on one thing for certain. College tuition is going to be raised at our public colleges and universities. Many of the students who attend college must finance their education, and much of this money is taxpayer money.
You and I subsidize the colleges and universities by lending money to those who wish to attend. But I must tell you that I have some serious reservations about what is happening in higher education.
First, the universities continue to increase the cost of a college education by introducing all kinds of absolutely worthless courses, courses that on a good day will not help a student find or retain a job. If one wishes to major in Ancient Samaritan Art, that is fine with me, but the student should be forced to pay the freight rather than having serious students contribute financially to his or her college education.
We have already, in our bastions of higher education, courses like Women’s Studies, Black Studies, Diversity Studies, Sensitivity Studies, and many more "studies" that have no impact on whether or not a person can make a living in the real world.
Some universities have dropped journalism as a major. One can still get courses that deal with journalism, but no longer is a journalism degree available. With the quality of the modern day journalist sinking to new lows, perhaps all journalism courses should be dropped. In fact, I have a suggestion. If you want to be a journalist, make good grades in freshmen English Composition. Learn to write in a coherent manner, one that is logical and makes sense, and presto, you are a journalist. I have saved you literally thousands and thousands of dollars, and I promise you that you will be at least as good as Rachael Maddow, or Chris Matthews or anyone on CNN.
I have dealt with this concept in the past, but I must bring up the subject of economics. Economics is a very important subject that should be taught to every student. The first item of business should be the Law of Supply and Demand.
In Mississippi, I think we are fast approaching the point where a college education for the middle class is priced out of reach. Colleges can find funds for athletic teams and state of the art stadiums, but seem to have a problem holding the cost of tuition down.
Already, men are opting out of college in huge numbers, and believe me, this is a problem. College educated women who earn significantly more than non-college educated men may have a problem finding the "right one." In the past, college educated men tended to marry college educated women. But now with more women graduating than men, we will in the very near future see a trend away from marriage.
Graduates are leaving college with huge student loans that must be repaid. In many cases, this is a burden that the graduate will carry for many years, and this is not good. Repayment of the loan will cause the graduate to delay buying a home, a car, and perhaps, even delay marriage and family.
So what is to be done? Well, let’s take Duke’s "Religious Studies" as an example, the department that forced the professor to resign. We have history departments in all of our schools. If a history major thinks he or she might want to become a minister, add a religious history course to the curriculum - preferably with an existing professor, and fire all of the "Religious Studies" professors, and close the department. A future minister can always go to a seminary for further studies - at his or her own expense, of course, and think of the money that will be saved.
We simply must begin to think about higher education in a new way. A college education that does not allow a graduate to get and hold a job is worthless, and taxpayers should not tolerate this waste of money. A great college curriculum is worthless if no one can afford it.
Universities have done a poor job of hiring presidents. Most of the presidents have the backbones of wet noodles. We see that when a president allows anarchist to loot and burn on his or her campus. Berkley comes to mind. Presidents absent a backbone should be grouped with the Religious Studies professors and fired. Otherwise, next year at this time, tuition at all of our public institutions will rise again.
