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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Fat Sex Therapist’ compares fitness trainers to Nazis, children’s dieting to sexual assault.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College World Series-Bound Baseball Team Receives Tremendous Support as Its School Shuts Down. “On Memorial Day, I brought you the bittersweet, inspiring story of the Birmingham-Southern Panthers baseball team. The team won its Super Regional postseason tournament and is set to play in the Division III College World Series. What’s remarkable about this feat is that the baseball team will outlast its school, which shuts its doors on Friday.”
This is sad, as my parents met at Birmingham Southern.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University Of California Professor Quits After Learning Her TA Would Be Paid More Than She Was. “As the instructor for both classes, Reiterman would be responsible for designing the course content, lecturing, and creating lessons plans for discussion sections, while her TAs would provide support by helping with grading or leading discussion sections, for example. Reiterman, who holds a Ph.D. and has taught as a part-time lecturer at the university since 2020, recommended a former student of hers who had just graduated with a bachelor’s degree and would be pursuing a master’s in education. But when administrators started the hiring process and copied Reiterman on the emails, she was shocked to learn that the teaching assistant would earn $3,236 per month — about $300 over Reiterman’s own monthly pay.”
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College Grad Finds Perfect Spot On Wall To Hang First Unemployment Check https://t.co/o2d4aZnye4 pic.twitter.com/f6Ci54H0wv
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 28, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: My Decision to Leave Academia: Their reality is so different from the rest of the world’s, and it has been for a long time.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY EDITION: Columbia trustees hang up phone, ignore question about president’s handling of protests amid criticism. “The trustees have been accused of being ‘missing in public action’ as the New York university faces scrutiny for its actions regarding antisemitism on campus.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia has more full-time employees than undergrads, including an Earth Observatory DEI director.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Shameful Northwestern president must own up to his cowardly ineptitude at Congressional hearing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Police clash with aggressive pro-Palestinian protesters outside Pomona College graduation.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Nearly Half of All Masters Degrees Aren’t Worth Getting: According to new research, 23 percent of bachelor’s degree programs and 43 percent of master’s degree programs have a negative ROI.
I have a nephew who became a welder instead of going to college. Now out of welding school, after only a couple of months he’s earning an hourly wage that equates to a six-figure income. He has $3000 of debt.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
Compare and contrast @Wharton @UofPenn response to protesters’ calls for the genocide of Jews, a global intifada, and the encampment with the faculty’s response to the removal of LGBTQ+ stickers from six office doors and/or desks in a faculty office suite on campus.
Do you… https://t.co/R43KXEcfPQ
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 9, 2024
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Penn faculty, students break down in tears after cops sweep pro-Hamas encampment
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Organizations that supported antisemitic “protests” on college campuses and enabled Hamas’s agenda in the U.S. should lose their tax-exempt status. https://t.co/7SM4skB3UE
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) May 10, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia University makes no mention of Jews in Holocaust Remembrance Day post.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: One third of Stanford students OK with violence to shut down speech.
I remember when institutions of higher learning were defended as essential parts of civil society.
Elite higher education has become a toxic industry polluting the body politic.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
UNC professors are withholding students' grades until suspended, pro-Hamas agitators are un-suspended by administration.
All of these professors should be fired for refusing to do their jobs. https://t.co/DXEhFPBJr7
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) May 7, 2024
THE EV BUBBLE DEFLATES: Pulling the plug: Three signs EVs are not catching on in the country.
The dogs don’t like the dog food.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: This year’s Harvard commencement speaker compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
Everyone’s a Nazi, except for the people actually calling for the eradication of Jews.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-Milwaukee employs about one administrator for every five students.
THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE BUBBLE DEFLATES: Those Tesla Superchargers Aren’t So Super Anymore.
THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE BUBBLE DEFLATES: Elon Musk issues brutal email to Tesla staff as he goes ‘absolutely hardcore’ and fires two senior executives, his entire Supercharger team, and moves to lay off hundreds more employees.
The Tesla boss, who sat down with Chinese premier Li Qiang on Sunday promising an imminent roll-out of driverless cars in the country, sent a brutal email to senior managers Monday night, The Information reported.
Rebecca Tinucci, senior director of the electric vehicle maker charging infrastructure, and Daniel Ho, head of the new vehicles program, will leave on Tuesday morning, the report said.
Musk also plans to dismiss everyone working for Tinucci and Ho, including the roughly 500 employees who work in the Supercharger group.
‘Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction. While some on exec staff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so,’ Musk said.
Plus: “Tesla’s public policy team, which was led by former executive Rohan Patel, will also be dissolved.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Kink’ instructor teaches Northwestern students that US is an ‘empire of white supremacist imperialist policing.’
THE EV BUBBLE DEFLATES: Hyundai will build more hybrids to supplement slowing EV demand.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia says student who made comments about ‘murdering Zionists’ to administrators has been ‘banned from campus,’ won’t say if he is expelled. That means he wasn’t.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students? Most never finish their degrees, and graduates wonder about the value of degrees they’ve earned. “So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will also close, often with little or no warning. Some of the students at Newbury, when it closed in 2019, had moved there from nearby Mount Ida College, for example, which shut down the year before.
Most students at colleges that close give up on their educations altogether. Fewer than half transfer to other institutions, a SHEEO study found. Of those, fewer than half stay long enough to get degrees. Many lose credits when they move from one school to another and have to spend longer in college, often taking out more loans to pay for it. The rest join the growing number of Americans — now more than 40 million, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — who spent time and money to go to college but never finished. . . . The closings follow an enrollment decline of 14 percent in the decade through 2022, the most recent period for which the figures are available from the Education Department. A decline of as much as 15 percent is projected to begin next year.”
If only there had been some sort of warning offered.
Related: Education Apocalypse Now?