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Monday, March 7. 2016

The Federal Leviathan Is Crushing Colleges and Universities

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Public and private universities in the United States are regulated to the nth degree.


Federal, state, and local higher education laws seem to multiply by the hour. Bureaucrats now dictate campus policies regarding academics, sexual assault, athletics, dining, technology, employment, campus construction, and student health, among other areas. Meanwhile, schools devote millions of dollars and valuable resources to comply with those rules—many of which confuse and do little to improve student outcomes.


Posted by The Barrister in Education at 15:41 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yes. And the regulations make it tougher to teach, much less teach effectively. Professors quake in fear that their policies might cause a lawsuit. So the trend is to dumb down standards.

Please tell me more about how more government regulation = more effective policies!
#1 Dangerous Dean on 2016-03-07 16:46 (Reply)
Luckily, they're able to save lots of money by hiring adjuncts to teach these students who are each paying tuition of $50,000 a year.
#2 JM01 on 2016-03-07 16:54 (Reply)
We should get rid of the Federal Government at all levels of education, but the schools are too hooked on the $$$$. Plus, IMO the educators do not mind the liberal/socialist agenda that the government pushes.
#3 ron snyder on 2016-03-07 17:19 (Reply)
Careful with your comments...you will send all those academics scurrying to their "safe zones" where they can wring their hands and have a group hug. Whoops, group hugs are probably not allowed--sexist or harmful or something, unless you have asked permission.
#4 rocdoctom on 2016-03-07 18:11 (Reply)
If student outcomes were their purpose, this would be a problem.
#5 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-03-07 18:49 (Reply)
Milton Friedman tried to tell them, well using socialized medicine as the example, but the college types couldn't apply the critical thought necessary to see the danger.

But really, isn't the whole purpose of college to learn how to see similarities and solutions from less than hand-fed information.
#6 JK Brown on 2016-03-07 20:36 (Reply)
The Feds might be killing universities but I think of it more as assisted suicide. If you go on a campus these days it is a combination of Club Med and a high end summer school. Most students are not taking challenging majors, none of them work part time jobs, girls all carry $500 handbags and the guys have lost all sense of masculinity. Colleges offer Sushi bars, massage therapy, and some in the north country have rooms with sunlamps for seasonal affective disorder. Only the very top schools still look like the colleges of the 50's. All of the others are in an arms race to see who can deliver the best facilities. They've all given up on education a long time ago. What they deliver today is a four- to six-year Carnival cruise to nowhere.
#7 DMW on 2016-03-07 22:54 (Reply)
The Ministry of Truth shuts down private schools much faster. The Davids don't stand a chance against the giants of DoE. My sister's cosmetology school, which she started more than 20 years ago, was put out of business by truly diabolical methods. The oldest running cosmetology school in the country has graduated its last class this year. It is a crime.
#8 Jewel (Link) on 2016-03-08 16:53 (Reply)

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