NC Gov speaks truth to Gender Studies power
More and more state governors are responding to the realities of the “higher education bubble”, which indentures students after they receive degrees that do not make them marketable.
North Carolina’s governor recently indicated he wanted to tie a school’s funding in his state to employment rates of the its graduates.
Minding the Campus writer Mark Bauerlein reports on a petition drive that followed his comments about specific liberal arts programs.
A petition hosted by MoveOn.org is circulating protesting comments made by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory about the curriculum in colleges and universities in the state. He made his remarks on Bill Bennett’s radio show, and they infuriated faculty members at Chapel Hill and elsewhere. Responding to Bennett’s question about what he plans to do with education, the Governor declared himself a “big vocational training advocate” and regretted that “the educational elite” have produced an undergraduate program filled with “courses that have no chance of getting people jobs.” Bennett cited “gender studies” with a laugh, and McCrory termed it a “subsidized course” and told listeners, “If you want to take a gender studies that’s fine, go to a private school and take it. But I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.” He added that he planned “to adjust my education curriculum to what business and commerce needs.” He insisted that “I do believe in liberal arts education,” but stated that the funding formula for higher education in the state must change so that it will favor more skills-based studies.
It’s a common sense position echoed by state leaders across the country, many of whom are pressured by big employers in their states to produce more graduates who can fill empty positions. The professors didn’t see it that way. …
The petition itself states, “We need to stand up to this hypocrisy now . . .” and its lead statement reads, “Governor McCrory: Stop your effort to dismantle UNC system liberal arts arts programs. UNC includes top-tier institutions attended by students from all over the world, in part because of its diverse and rigorous coursework. Give UNC the respect it deserves and keep your politics out of it.”
The tone is juvenile, the fear overdone. It is easy to read McCrory’s utterance as simply an adjustment to off-campus conditions, not a “dismantling.” But the petition has collected 12,678 signatures, and McCrory’s words have made their way to the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and Forbes, each with critical comments attached.
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He’s right. The amount of money spent on the number of these courses, the numerous staff and administrators in the name of “diversity” is ludicrous. If they insist on a course, make it a money saving video and be done with it.
Other than becoming a professor on a college campus, what does one do with a degree in “gender studies”?
Q. What can one do with a degree in Gender Studies?
A. Teach Gender Studies.
How dare you disparage the many job opportunities available for race/gender studies majors. They are not merely confined to teaching race/gender studies, there are also great opoortunities as diversity coordinators, numerous positions with leftist foundations, positions with lobbying groups, numerous positions with the Obama administration, positions as campaign workers for leftist dem politicians. The oportunities are countless, the only real requirement is that the positions produce absolutely nothing of worth, but allow full expression of historic grievances against white males.
If you hate someone very very much, (pretend you’re a militant racist or homophobe,) the most effective *legal* way to destroy their life is to convince them to pursue a “studies” major, go into serious debt and be unemployable ever after.
With friends like MoveOn and the petition signers, who needs enemies?
No loving parent would ever encourage their child to do what these college and university administrators and professors encourage their students to do.
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Snicker. As if “Gender Studies” was on a par with History, Philosophy, Music, or even English Literature in scholarly worth! Excising Gender Studies (and all such courses cross-listed in other departments) is not a “dismantling” of the liberal arts program but a strengthening.
Q. What’s the difference between Women’s Studies and Gender Studies?
A. They are very different. Women’s Studies teaches that women are oppressed and abused by men. Gender Studies teaches that women are oppressed and abused by men.
Q. If the university has a Women’s Studies department, a Women’s Resource Center and a majority of its students are women, why doesn’t it have a Men’s Studies program?
A. Everything else is Men’s Studies!
Q. If “everything else is Men’s Studies” why was my petition for a special minor in Men’s Studies based on all the classes I took outside my major denied?
A. Because the university already has a program for studying that women are oppressed and abused by men.
Most of these “studies” curriculum courses just aren’t inclusive and many hold diversity to be verboten.
Just check to see how many men are in “women’s studies,” or Indians or palefaces in “Black studies.” Most of these could hold up under any Title VII criterion if it was applied evenly.
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