I spend a lot of time blogging on education in the USA at all levels. I try very hard to do my homework before I start blogging so that I have the facts. I have been finding it very difficult to get to the real facts on what our colleges and universities are doing. You don't think so? Go try to get data on your own state colleges and universities. Try to find out how may degrees of each type and for what majors they issued this past year. You can find all kinds of things about race and diversity, but not on what they are really supposed to be doing. I have been working for an hour to see if I can find the number of bachelor degrees issued at UC Berkeley for each major. No luck. I did find that they have 43% Asians and 33% white students. I also found that the Blacks that get in almost never graduate. No one seems to know why. They think it has to do with some kind of victimization.
My challenge to you is to go find out what your tax money is being spent on and see if you think you are getting your monies worth. Second, look at the kids, the parents and the tax payers who are spending all this money on degrees that you know are little more than hobbies and will never help to grow our economy or pay back the investment.
Take all the degrees that your colleges and universities offer and rank them in terms of their value to this country. Do this from top to bottom and then draw a line at the 50% point and eliminate all those below your line. Next take 50% of those that are left and cut the number of degrees awarded by 50%. Now you are starting to manage your tax money and show the universities how you want your money spent. Next take the top 25% and see if there is some way that the number of graduates in this area can be doubled.. These are the ones who really pay the bills and we need more of them.
Most of our colleges and universities are run by the inmates who have never been outside the walls. What do you think our prisons would look like if we ran them like we run our colleges and universities? They would look just like our universities except the prison terms would get longer. Did you know that after 6 years, only about 40% of the kids ever graduate? We should consider it stealing when someone contracts to spend our tax money in college and then never graduates. What if you hired a carpenter to build your house and it took 6 years rather than 4 and then 60% he left the job unfinished? That is about what we have.
The reason for this challenge is that I feel the only way to get higher education under control is for each of us to get the facts ourselves and form our own opinion about what needs to be done. If we all know what we want and not just take the word of other, we may have a chance to fix it.
PS----Why do you think Berkeley has 43% Asians? Why do you think engineering accounts for 10% of the graduates at Berkeley when is going down every where else? Some one is kicking our butts and we have to stop it. Do your research and get hot.
PS----Did you see the news where they said that a large percentage of our young people are so uneducated that they will never be able to hold a job? They pointed out that the main cause was the large percentage of these kids who were born out of wedlock. Da! When did you wake up to the facts when 50% of Black kids were born out of wedlock? Scientific American had charts on the trend back in 1974 when it was "just" 50%. Now it is about 90%. Da! Whose problem is it that so many Blacks are born out of wedlock? It is 100% the problem of the Black community, that's who.
