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Tyler Austin Harper
@Tyler_A_Harper
This is a helpful and dispassionate summary of the data around the public’s views on higher ed. The recent Gallup poll clearly shows that confidence has imploded over the last 10 years among all political parties, and politics is cited as the top concern with cost a close second.
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Steven N. Durlauf
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The Vanderbilt-Washington St. Louis report and various statements/writings by Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper such as this thread, have generated an acrimonious debate on whether public opinion has turned against universities because of perceived political biases. Some claim x.com/Tyler_A_Harper…
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Silence Dogood, Ph.D.
@Parrhesiaste62
Nevertheless, full speed ahead with sclerotic financial models, poor ROI of degrees, abysmal fundraising returns, unhinged ideologue/activist hiring and truly awful ID obsessed/merit averse DEI initiatives
@COMatBU
under deanship of gutless progressive fraud Mariette DiChristina.
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Christopher Newfield
@cnewf
Tyler, In the Gallup -Lumina open ended questions, of parents who said they didn’t want their kid to go to college, 11% picked political agendas. The overwhelming issue is affordability. People have been told politics is a big problem, but they don’t pick it on their own.
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something something
@thevanosam
Look, 99% of the kids in my upscale suburb go to college every year. It's a big suburb and that is the driving goal. Huge numbers dropout and are hurt because they didn't want to go or shouldn't have. We never should have made this the sole metric of educational success for
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Matthew Cole
@mattbencole
"Imploded over the last 10 years" --> has declined modestly relative to other institutions "across political parties" --> significantly among Republicans and fractionally elsewhere "politics is cited as the top concern" --> ONLY among Republicans
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Professor Xelalem
@ProfXelalem
As someone that works in higher education I am quite sympathetic to the views of the public. In many ways, the ideological capture of the institutions has created an environment where being intellectually lazy and leaning on progressive sloganeering has been applauded and
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Billy Fleming
@JooBilly
Apropo of this extended diatribe, the erosion of public trust in American institutions is even more dire in media.
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AltAzn
@Alt_Azn
“Everyone should go to college” is one of the most retarded policies ever embraced. When people say American education should be more like Europe they fail to include Europe believes college should be for the top students.
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adriana
@adriana16362329
I believe it - We told our daughter if she doesn’t get a full ride to college to wait to go to college or do it online and work. Why pay these insane sums of money just so professors can just train you how to be an activist? You can just watch YouTube for that. Also we see
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@o____five
Why do you think that Republicans confidence is so much lower than Dems and Independents? Which factors could be influencing this? Media sources? Education level? Geographic factors? Age? Gender? Race?
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The Feeling Borrower
@TheKurtSlade
Uh huh. And which of these are actual, provable factors, and which are perceptions influenced by massive amounts of money spent by right wing media and enterprise? Which by the way you seem to have no problem placating. I can’t with you fucking people.
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a. f. huxley (w/ anarchist characteristics)
@HuxleyDick
Cool that was one of my questions. The other question is how you connect this to the causal explanation you've offered such that we must write about the disparity of views which professors hold before addressing funding structures for tuition that are likely contributing?
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Zac Hill
@zdch
The most revealing thing is the existence of people who somehow still deny all this!
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Tommaso di Maria
@tommasodi_di
Once gained, public trust in institutions "hangs in the air;" like common sense, it becomes conventional wisdom. It takes great effort to gain or lose, and regaining it is harder, and always qualified and partial.
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Ben Peterson
@jazzfan71
This is how you get conservatives to defund these universities as the universities are too close minded and bigoted to have their views challenged.
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