What Parent Wants To Send Their Kid To A College Where The Focus Is On Protesting, Not Learning?
University of Missouri has seen better days. Blake Neff writes at The Daily Caller that after caving to a bunch of protestors demands, Mizzou has a huge budget gap:
The University of Missouri (MU) is losing about 1500 students and is facing a huge $32 million budget shortfall four months after it attracted national attention as the site of massive race-based campus protests....Because of the abrupt and unexpected nature of the shortfall, Foley is taking immediate and severe steps to fix the situation: The school budget is being cut 5 percent across the board, all hiring is being frozen (barring exceptional circumstances), and annual raises have been canceled. He has also announced a new, more intensive effort to recruit potential Mizzou students by phone, email, and even via Skype.
What do those calls say, "Come to Mizzou, where you can stand outside and yell about discrimination, keeping yourself -- and other students -- from getting an education"?
Meanwhile, the freshman class enrollment is down 20 percent. What's not down? The protestors continue "to engage in very public protests while demanding even more concessions from the school."
via Lastango
My favorite part was when Click described this career as "stellar."
It's as if she literally has no understanding of the power, or "muscle," of language. In no sense could any of her work be described as a thoughtful intellectual review of media and society. The taxpayers of the Show-Me State were paying a 40+-year-old woman $47,000 a year to watch teenage vampire movies and to daydream, listlessly, of being friends with Martha Stewart someday.
Crid at March 14, 2016 6:16 AM
"What Parent Wants To Send Their Kid To A College Where The Focus Is On Protesting, Not Learning?"
As long as the kids score the sheepskin, few parents care what they learn.
dee nile at March 14, 2016 6:34 AM
As long as the kids score the sheepskin, few parents care what they learn.
Yeah, until the kid can't find a job.
And is deeply in debt.
Many of them then go on to gradual school so they can put off paying back the debt. Which means that they're a) accruing interest on the original debts, and b) racking up new debs, and c) not actually learning anything that will score them a decent enough paying job where they can retire those aforementioned debts.
And because much of that is federally-guaranteed, they can't ever escape those debts. With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford:
You load sixteen credits, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the university store
I R A Darth Aggie at March 14, 2016 7:17 AM
"... few parents care what they learn."
I'm shelling out $10K per semester, and that's at a "cheap" school. I care very much, I expect some learnin' to be goin' on. Like IRA-DA, I REALLY don't want her coming back to live with me after graduation.
bkmale at March 14, 2016 7:37 AM
And PS I'm all for free speech, and then some. I just can't imagine having the privilege of going to college and then spending my time there out yelling in a diag instead of in class.
Amy Alkon at March 14, 2016 7:39 AM
It will get worse before it gets better.
My guess that 1500 total student loss is 2000 sane students leaving and 500 more crazy protesters transferring in. Just what the protesters would want, conservatives and moderates gone and more extreme left arriving.
As to what parents would want to send to Mizzou? Many who vote Democrat would.
And as for the 2000 leaving Id guess 500 leaving college forever, and 1500 transferring to other schools.
Joe J at March 14, 2016 8:33 AM
I think it would be funny if they protested their college out of existence. No degrees for any of them and all their college money wasted. It would be a fitting end for the wussy administrators that coddled them and let it happen.
Matt at March 14, 2016 9:34 AM
There are degrees that are negatives already. (I would never hire a grievance studies major for any job, ever, and I am not alone.)
Fortunately the legislature is stepping in before that can happen to every degree from Mizzou.
MarkD at March 14, 2016 11:36 AM
Fortunately the legislature is stepping in before that can happen to every degree from Mizzou.
Posted by: MarkD at March 14, 2016 11:36 AM
People who have never experienced any accountability in their lives, believe there is *no* accountability ever.
This includes the protesting students, and the administrators who enabled them.
When the shit hits the fan, financially, in this country, there are going to be a lot of screaming tantrums.
Isab at March 14, 2016 3:30 PM
All right. I'll say it. Fuck Mizzou. I really have no sympathy for those entitled, spoiled special snowflakes who created the hashtag "FuckParis," because they just couldn't stand the thought of the Paris attacks getting so much media attention while they were busy knotting their panties over imagined racial slights.
To say nothing of the relentless boo-hoo-hooing over the firing of Melissa Click, who committed battery against a student and incited other students to commit battery against the same student.
And this is not even taking into consideration that with her piss-poor credentials, Melissa Click shouldn't have been hired by any institution of higher learning in the first place.
Fuck Mizzou and fuck their special snowflakes.
Patrick at March 14, 2016 3:52 PM
I R A Darth Aggie, one tiny error:
Your student loan debts do not accrue interest while you're in school. But the rest of what you said certainly applies.
Patrick at March 14, 2016 3:59 PM
I predict that Misery is only the first in a whole series of state universities that will fall (or at least their students will abandon them) for accommodating these Visigoths. Oregon, with its "oppression re-education camps", will be next.
It's about darn time. To hell with all SJWs.
jdgalt at March 14, 2016 8:11 PM
Patrick,
Some loans don't accrue interest. Some do. For federally subsidized loans the federal government pays the interest as long as you are in school. For unsubsidized loans you accrue interest but don't have to make payments as long as you are in school.
Ben at March 15, 2016 5:50 AM
Amy: "I just can't imagine having the privilege of going to college and then spending my time there out yelling in a diag instead of in class."
Yep, I felt very lucky and privileged to go to college as no one else in my family did. I cannot imagine wasting my time and my effort, not to mention the effort others in my family did for me so that I could attend college.
I would have felt embarrassed if I didn't live up to their expectations and wasted their efforts on my behalf.
Also, for what ever it is worth (and I cannot find a link now) I remember reading a few weeks back that one of the demands that the "protesters" at Mizzoou wanted was for classes that they missed, and should have been marked as "incomplete," to be removed from their transcripts.
charles at March 15, 2016 8:30 PM
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