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Wrong.

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What do you disagree with? Maybe it's a question of context. Artsy endeavors can be fun, and every now and then someone can make a living off of picking a string, blowing a horn, banging on a skin, or simply bullshiting people with "deep thoughts". But in the context of a useful education, and contribution to society or a business, they are mostly surface and bare. Just my opinion, others may feel differently.

Programs shouldnt favor any political viewpoint. All subjects should be treated like a science.

College was never meant to be job training, but education.

College was designed to teach the second sons of aristocracy and potential clergy of Europe how to think. The problem is, employers have increasingly moved from the people working jobs doing the hiring to having hiring departments made up of people who have never worked the jobs they are staffing. They then slashed their training budgets, relying on colleges or previous employers to deliver them fully trained recruits. They then are baffled at high turnover rates and difficult learning curves for recent grads. They then respond by only hiring candidates with at least 5 years experience. Then, they can't understand why they don't have more qualified applicants while recent grads struggle to convince firms to hire them so they can get aforementioned experience.

Since employers want colleges to train their new employees, STEM majors have adjusted, but Liberal Arts have not. Formerly, this type of work training was handled by employers or Vo-Tech 2 year schools or "business schools", but HR retards thought that requiring a 4 year degree with a name that sounds like the specific job they're hiring for would reduce how much training their new hires would need and give them better applicants. In the olden days of yore, a philosophy major could get hired into management at a large company, but today, his resume will never see a decision maker because the HR computer will toss it in the trash because it's not a "business" degree. No, that English major cannot apply to be a project manager (whose job is to write reports), they need a "project management" degree.

This schism created two collegiate mindsets: the how to do verses the how to think. Unfortunately, at the same time, the how to think regiment was completely replaced by two generations of progressive partisans. Rather than teaching students how to think, they began teaching them how to think LIKE THEM! Any diversity of thought was weeded out through tenure, blacklisting, and ridicule. This lead to liberal arts majors largely becoming teaching not of how to think, but what to think.

So, in short, higher education has been completely broken and destroyed on both ends. The result of this is a generation of book smart people with zero critical thinking skills and no means of attaining the requisite 5 years experience to obtain employment which will enable them to earn a good living or blatantly communists who have no ability to handle differences of opinion because they were only taught to have and listen to one opinion, the progressive one.

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So, in short, higher education has been completely broken and destroyed on both ends

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Great overall post, thanks for sharing !

I have two children in college and I considered it my job to teach critical thinking skills to them at a very young age, also cause and effect and the results of poor choices were drilled in almost daily.

It is my job to do this, not some professor who they have never met with unknown values and intentions. I am very happy to say I feel I was successful, while certainly not mini-me's they share the values and thought process they learned at an early age and are well equipped to sort their own opinions on the world as it continues to unfold around them

If you pass the buck on educating/teaching your kids these skills don't whine when someone else takes advantage of it. Way to many people are letting educators stand in as surrogate parents.

Nice summary, kingbob.

State Legislatures are the only hope of fixing them.

Any school that blatant promotes a one sided political agenda should have it's funding slashed.

Left wing ideas being discussed on college campuses is perfectly fine, but all other viewpoints should be equally welcomed and that's where the problem comes in.

I hate to break it you, but Oceanography isn't Liberal Arts...Pretty weak argument blaming your poor performance on the teacher's accent.

Do away with Tenure.

Dismantle The Department of Education.

Stop Federal funding and guaranteeing Student Loans.
This will prevent the subsidizing of worthless degrees that have zero chance of providing you with a job other than going back in to academia.

Problem solved.