Somehow It Is Women's Fault

 There is more handwriting and teeth gnashing over recent reports that the number of men in colleges and universities in the United States is at an all-time low.  I love it when articles keep highlighting the fact women are still going into "low-paid professions."  You know why that is.  Women don't opt for these careers because they are low-paid; they go into them because they are BETTER jobs than the ones men tend to dominate.  They are intrinsically more rewarding jobs.  And we all know, or should, that when women DO dominate an occupation, that pay goes down.  Always.  It is all because of the "family wage" notion that men need the jobs more than women because they have "families to support," while  women are denigrated because it is assumed they have husbands to support them, or will.  Which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that women are forced into marriage--trading sex for financial support--and men benefit from sexual access and free domestic labor.

This is the nasty little truth people don't want to talk about.  Our society is so much hinged on men's alleged "sex right."  The entire economy is rigged against women just so men can get their dicks in.

Another academic, another business prof by the name of Steve Galloway, is going crazy with worry over the gap in colleges. He thinks educated women won't bother with blue collar stiffs, so more and more men will wind up unmarried and pissed off to the point of being dangerous because women, like lower animals, refuse to "mate" with them.  "Mating" is not used with regard to people; this is strictly something that happens with animals other than humans.  When somebody uses a word like "mating" when talking about people, he, and it is almost always a "he," is an evo psych dipshit.  He is denigrating women for having standards for refusing to have anything to do with entitled men.  Furthermore, many educated women are married or have relationships with blue collar men without college educations.  The simple truth is because men are overpaid for jobs in general, they don't need to go to college to survive.  Women do, and even then, because they are denigrated in the workforce, they still have a tough time to survive.

Once again, it is all to buttress the corrupt marriage system men depend on to control women.  Even with a rigged system like this one, more and more women are refusing to have anything to do with marriage and family life.  That is because they know if they do get married, they will have to work PLUS do the shit work at home that men refuse to do because they are too lazy to do it.

Let these dudes like Galloway, Robin Hanson, and Jordan Peterson get all upset.  It isn't going to change a thing.

Obituary: Small Colleges

Plummeting birthrates, sky-high tuition, challenges from online "learning," and people unwilling to go into debt all play factors into the closures of more and more colleges, especially those private "liberal arts" colleges:





Here is a list of colleges that have closed since 2016.  I am sure the list will get longer and longer.

Here is an even longer list.  Note virtually all the public universities listed are in the process of consolidation or merger.  Not so with the private colleges by and large.

What a Steaming Pile of Shit

The LAST thing this country needs with so few jobs available is MORE college graduates. I can't even believe somebody would write such a stupid pile of shit column as one supporting the existence of for-profit schools.

By the way, many if not most traditional colleges nowadays offer online or distance courses, and more of them offer courses at night. My old college, UNR, was one of the first universities to actually start catering to working adults, offering degree programs in a variety of areas so that students wouldn't have to go into tons of debt to finish by being forced to take day courses.

For-profit colleges exist for one reason only, and that is to scam the federal government on grants and loans. Their "degrees" aren't worth the paper they are written on. Unfortunately, students who have been conned to go to these "colleges" find themselves saddled with monstrous debt, which they CANNOT discharge in bankruptcy.

It is much better for students to go the community college route, then university, if they are so inclined.

But in any case, a college degree is a piss-poor substitute for a union card.

I Have Always Felt

the Ivy League schools were always overrated in terms of academic quality; what people are paying for is access to connections, as these schools are traditionally the schools of the rich and powerful.

That's not anything to sneer at, for connections are what get people ahead in the world, like it or not.

Anyway, the site mentioned in the story is worth looking at. It's better than U.S. News & World Report's annual list of colleges.

Probably more accurate, too, since the magazine tends to overrate the Ivy League and other "selective" schools.

It Figures

for-profit "colleges" would get money at the expense of public institutions.

After the PBS expose of the for-profit college industry, I am surprised anybody would waste their money on these degree mills.

Why Is It

employers so value college degrees?

The Privatizer Assholes

want to destroy public colleges and universities and damage private ones by taking NCLB to the postsecondary level.

Well, what makes these bastards think anybody likes NCLB on the public school level? EVERYBODY but corporate interests and right-wing hacks hates it. And now extremists want to cut off public funding for colleges and universities by putting across phony "accountability" measures.

When will this bullshit end?