I just don't get how this has been allowed to flourish. Its not healthy for anyone and has nothing to do with the academic mission of a school.
It seems like the athletic programs at these schools directly impact a few hundred (ish) kids that are actually in the big sports, and otherwise exist as a machine that enriches the people running the athletic program.
It has made Disney tremendous amounts of money. That's basically it.
> destitution-level pay for most of the instructional staff
Faculty in the California State University system are planning to strike during the first week of the spring semester. Their goal: to get a 15% salary increase. Factoring in inflation and the increased cost of living near many campuses, it's not a hand up, or even treading water, it's sinking a little more slowly.
If they get what they want (and they should, compensation for non-administrators in the CSU is ridiculous), the money has to come from somewhere. It seems extremely unlikely that the CSU will be able to get the funding from the legislature in a year of budget deficits. Yes, they could (and should!) cut the number of administrators, but most actually serve useful functions, and the savings would not be that great. That leaves tuition increases. Maybe things would be different if the system were still funded by the state to the same degree they were decades ago, but those days are gone.
We ventured deep into what makes something true and down every epistemological corridor, we found a chasm that could only be crossed by assuming true to our ontological priors. And when we pointed that these assumptions landed us in different realities, the modernists, blind to their own actions, were cocky enough to tell us they never did such a thing.
I'm fed up with the lot. The entire weaselly bunch can get busy leaving.
I don't think humans, in our present form of bio-technological evolution, can afford to without everything becoming worse.
EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes...I still can't tell if this is correct or not. The reply that says "post secondary educations" doesn't make sense to me because it this appears to be used as a verb, and that doesn't scan for me.
Then, you'll be told you got voted through the floor because you complained you got voted through the floor.
Over the 14 years I've been here, I've gotten enough training data to A) wait it out and/or B) make an edit showing humor about it? "wow, -4 for an innocuous take you'd find at any coffee shop!?"
On the net, it doesn't matter much unless you're a new account, things always trend positive as long as you don't _always_ show up with takes explaining everyone is committing group think and you're the only one who gets it. (p.s. that's not even close to what you're doing here! just illustrating the only situation in which I think people get persistently negative votes)
EDIT: Lol
That having been said, I also didn't know what PSE was, and I don't think you should be downvoted.
When NFTs take advantage of young gullible people to sell them certificates at a ridiculous markup, we properly call that a scam.
When universities let students go into massive debt for degrees that do not boost earning power, that’s fine.
What’s even more criminal is that tenure track positions remain scarce and academics in general remains underfunded in spite of insane tuition inflation. Where is that money going? Loads of administrators and salary increases for the higher ups of course. Administration overhead is just ludicrous. It’s a jobs program for older people funded by making the young go into debt.
Goofy politics is a minor issue next to this.
The thing that I found most insulting was when university faculty and staff would complain about entitled students. My reply was always," if your tuition for 1 year costs as much as a fully optioned luxury vehicle, I expect certain things to be present."
And I can at least sell the automobile at a later date. Can't do that with my toilet paper of a degree.
I wholeheartidly believe in some form of student loan forgiveness but it needs to be at the expense of higher education who created this crisis.
The solution is simple: 1. Cap student visas 2. End government backed student loans. Or at least restrict them to STEM only. 3. Tax university endowment income as a percent to pay down outstanding student loan debts when tuition is over an arbitrary amount.
Universities want to peddle socialism then it's time they pay their fair share.