Even those who aren’t surprised by the simple fact of Donald Trump’s assault on America’s universities must be shocked by the full frontal magnitude of it all, belated attempts to walk back parts of it, notwithstanding. (Harvard is putting up a courageous, clever, and effective defense.)
It’s true but the universities are entirely complicit. They’re vehicles of indoctrination and privilege, not education not diversity. They’re completely entwined with corporations, MIC, politicians, etc. They literally “educated” Trump. It’s a training service for capital/fascism, not for labor. And it will continue to be so.
What’s your suggestion? We can’t exactly peer into the future and see who will use their education for good or evil. The point of an educated populace is to be able to spot and stop movements like Trump’s before we get into this position in the first place.
Thinking a university is just a training center for anything labor or exploiters, misses the.point. it’s supposed to teach us how to fit into the universe. How to be a human being and so more than just work for overlords
I must agree here. What you say may not be fully true of rank and file professors, but it has definitely been true of those who make it into upper administration roles.
They turned higher ed into a debt factory and resisted most efforts to make sure college was actually going to pay off. They didn’t care.