My mother went to SJSU, I went to Foothill and DeAnza, then transferred to SFSU (didn’t graduate, going to return to school in Maryland where I now live sometime in the future)
Community college imo is the way to go, you can get into way better schools than is possible straight out of high school and it cuts college costs by 50%, I don’t know why it isn’t pushed harder.
I transferred to SJSU from Cabrillo, a local community college near me. Absolutely fantastic school, not only in affordability but also in quality of teachers. Met some history professors (who I keep in touch with to this day) who really played a role in shaping me. I agree with you that it makes no sense why we don't push community college and local universities more; its cheaper and just as good or better.
I would love to see more of these conversations take place. I am a proud liberal arts major and a proud conservative and see no disconnect between the two. I read many of the great classics in my major, and they continue to affect my thinking decades later. However, I also have friends in academia who tell me they are terrified of the "woke" agenda, and literally choose to sit directly behind the self-appointed "equity czar" in his department, so when she starts talking about the inequities of white men, she can't look at him. Personally, I would love to have conservatives raise the banner of a liberal arts education because it is through our understanding of each other that we can have a more peaceful and just society.
It truly is, and I fear when large swaths of the population turn their back to it. If we can correct I think two things: 1) move away from academia as a milestone for a career and make it about learning; 2) firmly disconnect government, corporate, and academic sectors. Right now academia, in the current model, would NEVER bite the hands that feed it, namely the corporate and government sectors. This, along with the drive for students to use academia as career advancement make it so real learning is side-stepped by the advancement of the same corporate agenda that has until recently been quite good for business; I believe this is where your equity czar comes in. As I mentioned in this paper, we talk really about race and its ramifications, but our conversations look nothing like what the equity czar rages about, because we explore issues like race in their time, space, without drawing ecological fallacies or just complaining. The "Academia" needs to be reborn in a state where ideas can thrive and flourish. When we are talking about something, we aren't talking about other things. Academics and students talk about some things, but they spend all their time there and never on some of the real issues in our world. I believe corporate America and government do the exact same things, and leverage funding to keep the pesky academics in line.
My mother went to SJSU, I went to Foothill and DeAnza, then transferred to SFSU (didn’t graduate, going to return to school in Maryland where I now live sometime in the future)
Community college imo is the way to go, you can get into way better schools than is possible straight out of high school and it cuts college costs by 50%, I don’t know why it isn’t pushed harder.
Huge disservice to all America youngsters.
I transferred to SJSU from Cabrillo, a local community college near me. Absolutely fantastic school, not only in affordability but also in quality of teachers. Met some history professors (who I keep in touch with to this day) who really played a role in shaping me. I agree with you that it makes no sense why we don't push community college and local universities more; its cheaper and just as good or better.
I would love to see more of these conversations take place. I am a proud liberal arts major and a proud conservative and see no disconnect between the two. I read many of the great classics in my major, and they continue to affect my thinking decades later. However, I also have friends in academia who tell me they are terrified of the "woke" agenda, and literally choose to sit directly behind the self-appointed "equity czar" in his department, so when she starts talking about the inequities of white men, she can't look at him. Personally, I would love to have conservatives raise the banner of a liberal arts education because it is through our understanding of each other that we can have a more peaceful and just society.
It truly is, and I fear when large swaths of the population turn their back to it. If we can correct I think two things: 1) move away from academia as a milestone for a career and make it about learning; 2) firmly disconnect government, corporate, and academic sectors. Right now academia, in the current model, would NEVER bite the hands that feed it, namely the corporate and government sectors. This, along with the drive for students to use academia as career advancement make it so real learning is side-stepped by the advancement of the same corporate agenda that has until recently been quite good for business; I believe this is where your equity czar comes in. As I mentioned in this paper, we talk really about race and its ramifications, but our conversations look nothing like what the equity czar rages about, because we explore issues like race in their time, space, without drawing ecological fallacies or just complaining. The "Academia" needs to be reborn in a state where ideas can thrive and flourish. When we are talking about something, we aren't talking about other things. Academics and students talk about some things, but they spend all their time there and never on some of the real issues in our world. I believe corporate America and government do the exact same things, and leverage funding to keep the pesky academics in line.