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  Support Dr. Navarro
Posted by: Albert Hidel - 03-24-2024, 06:49 AM - Forum: General Education Discussions - Replies (1)

Former UC Irvine professor Dr. Peter K. Navarro is now a political prisoner of the Biden junta. If you wish to send a letter/note of encouragement to him in prison, here’s the address:

PETER K NAVARRO
(04370-510)
15801 S.W. 137TH AVENUE 
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  RA Blow Up Pipelines or No Way
Posted by: Harrison J Bounel - 02-27-2024, 05:24 AM - Forum: General Education Discussions - No Replies

Quote:State Universities Are Teaching Students To Blow Up Oil Pipelines, Records Show

‘How to Blow Up A Pipeline’ author wants to send message to 'capitalists' that 'their properties will be trashed'

By  Luke Rosiak

Feb 26, 2024   DailyWire.com


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At least sixteen universities are promoting the book “How to Blow Up A Pipeline,” which outlines for readers how to commit eco-terrorism — oftentimes making it required reading, a Daily Wire investigation found.

The book was published in 2021 by Swedish professor Andreas Malm and calls for terrorism and overthrowing capitalism, acknowledging that people will be killed as a result. “Demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed,” the book says.

Now multiple state-funded universities took classes that were nominally on unrelated topics, and contorted them into courses that read just four books, including the pipeline manifesto and a communist manifesto. At the University of California-Berkeley, for example, students of Geography & Interactive Biology were required to read the book. Instructors Jake Kosek and Paul Fine took what was ostensibly a biology course and transformed it into one on “decolonization.” The syllabus states that the “class focuses on the scientific practice of modern botanical taxonomy as a colonial formation that conditions our modern relations” and how the names of plants “were often forged to be of service to empire-building.”

The lessons across the country suggest that universities’ support for terrorism extends beyond the students supporting Hamas on many campuses. In fact, the book looks to Palestinian terrorists for inspiration, advising that, “As part of the mass resistance in the besieged Gaza Strip in the spring of 2018, Palestinians invented techniques for sending kites and helium-inflated condoms carrying incendiary materials across the wall to burn Israeli property.”

U.S. intelligence identified the book as a “developing threat” and security risk because “Malm encourages pipeline sabotage and property destruction.” Twenty-three government agencies, including the FBI, warned that the film adaptation of the book, released in 2023, could spark terrorism.

A New York Times interviewer was taken aback at Malm’s willingness to cause death. “It’s hard to think that deaths don’t become inevitable if there is more sabotage,” the interviewer said.

“Sure, if you have a thousand pipeline explosions per year, if it takes on that extreme scale. But we are some distance from that, unfortunately,” Malm answered.

“Don’t say ‘unfortunately,’” the interviewer interjected.

“Well, I want sabotage to happen on a much larger scale than it does now. I can’t guarantee that it won’t come with accidents,” Malm replied.

Malm said he hasn’t had the opportunity to blow up a pipeline personally but that he would “gladly participate” if given the opportunity.

“If I were part of a group where something like blowing up a pipeline was perceived as a tactic that could be useful for our struggle, then I would gladly participate,” he said. “I have engaged in as much militant climate activism as I have had access to” and “I’ve done things that I can’t tell you or that I wouldn’t tell others publicly.”

He said he trained his four-year-old son to “be on the lookout for S.U.V.s” because the child “knows these are the bad cars” and has “an awareness of the tactic of deflating S.U.V. tires.”

His own children were not the only youth being inculcated with an ideology of destruction.

In Spring 2022, City University of New York professor Joseph Mohorcich required students to read the book as part of a course called Politics and Human Survival, which persuaded students that without radical action, “everyone could die a terrible death.” Students were also required to read “Revolutionary Suicide” by Black Panthers member Huey Newton, who was accused of murder and rape. Mohorcich wrote a paper called “What level of resistance to air pollution is justified? On violence and self-defense.”

Arizona State University, a public university, required students of Professor Mina Suk’s “Are Humans Special? Environmental Theory” to read “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” that same semester.

The University of California, San Diego required it in a class taught by Professor of Environmental Physics Brad Werner called “CGS 110 Intersectional Struggles for Environmental Justice.” The course says it focuses on “Colonial, capitalist and imperialist exploitation of and damage to the environment” and how “resistance developed,” using “Critical Gender Studies Frameworks.” It includes “role-play exercises and simulations of exploitive/extractive-resistance movement systems.” Werner once argued for “sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups” because the Earth was “f**ked.”

The University of Washington required it in “Special Topics in Rights,” where Professor of Political Science Jamie Mayerfeld asks, “Does capitalism help or hinder responsible climate policy? Is socialism a better way?” On the syllabus under the heading “What Should Activists Do?” is “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” Only four other books are required; one is How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century and another is A Planet to Win: The Case for a Green New Deal.

At Illinois State University, students in an English class are required to read only four books, one of which is “How To Blow Up a Pipeline.” Another is a book on Marxism by Friedrich Engels, whom Vladimir Lenin called “the finest scholar and teacher of the modern proletariat.” Professor Christopher Breu describes capitalism as “cancerous” and “violence.”

Next semester, Ohio State University may change the title of “Environmental Citizenship” to “Climate Justice,” and require students to read the book as one of only four required readings. Another of the four is “Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards The Idea of Degrowth Communism.” That book, sold for $110, argues for making Western countries poorer.

The course will no longer focus on “interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment,” but instead on “political strategies for climate change” and “capitalism.” Professor Joel Wainwright warns ominously that “The carbon profiteers hope you fail to connect the dots,” and argues for overthrowing not only capitalism, but also the concept of sovereign rule.

Wainwright, a geography professor, is the author of Rethinking Palestine and Israel: Marxist Perspectives. In his book “Climate Leviathan,” he praised “the most radical strategies of the climate justice movement” and called for “revolutionary events” overthrowing the U.S. government as well as that of China, because China is too “capitalist.”

A spokesman for Ohio State said the course “is not listed for summer or autumn 2024,” though the change request form says “Autumn semester 2023 Tuesday & Thursday, 9:35-10:55 A.M.” and is listed as having been approved at every level except one, with the final one pending.

None of the other universities responded to requests for comment.

The Department of Homeland Security defines terrorism as any act that “is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources.”

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  JFK Assassination, Diploma Mill Connection?
Posted by: Albert Hidel - 01-07-2024, 09:14 AM - Forum: Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited - Replies (1)

Quote:The JFK Assassination: New Link between the Civil Air Patrol and Wandering Bishops
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James Day
1 day ago


A new link sheds further light on the role of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and the cabal of “bishops” who manipulated Lee Oswald as the Texas School Book Depository patsy on November 22, 1963.

Needless to say, oil magnate D.H. Byrd factors in every JFK assassination narrative: at the time of the president’s murder, he was the owner of the actual building at 411 Elm St., where the Texas School Book Depository leased space.

Moreover, students of the assassination know of Byrd’s high-ranking association with CAP. This is of interest since Oswald joined a Louisiana CAP squadron as a teenager in the 1950s. On the surface, it appears only a coincidence that this ex-cadet would spend his final days working in a building owned by a significant figure in CAP history.

But a newly uncovered connection suggests it is not out of the realm of possibility CAP doubled as a recruitment front for suspected assassination plotters like David Ferrie, Oswald’s squadron leader in 1955.

On July 1, 1946, CAP was incorporated by an act of Congress; D. Harold Byrd is named Texas wing commander. The Illinois wing commander is one Gordon A. DaCosta. Within a few short years, DaCosta would face charges of allegedly misusing $50,000 of CAP federal funds. Deposed from his rank in CAP, DaCosta reconstituted himself as a pseudo-academic. DaCosta created the unaccredited Indiana Northern University on a former dairy farm in Gas City, IN, halfway between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. He named himself president and chancellor.

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DaCosta, right, ousted Illinois Wing Commander of CAP, president of fake Indiana Northern University, and future bishop in pseudo-church that included David Ferrie, Jack Martin, and Guy Banister

In other words, DaCosta entered the idiosyncratic world of the diploma mills, fake schools that distributed diplomas and degrees for a price. Indiana Northern University affiliated itself with a similar outfit, Philathea Bible College of London, Ontario. Philathea’s president was Benjamin C. Eckardt. It was not uncommon for con artists in the fake pseudo-academic racket to dabble as quasi-religious figures in obscure micro-churches. Such a title as “the Most Reverend” or “Archbishop” coupled with “Doctor” or “Professor” could only enhance the prestige of the “school” that was their livelihood.

Eckardt, for instance, was deemed the archbishop of Ontario in the Free Protestant Episcopal Church. DaCosta, too, saw value in such a racket. In 1971, DaCosta himself became a bishop in the same church as Eckardt.

If one drills down further, these strange worlds provide cover for such nefarious dealings as smuggling contraband, selling counterfeit securities, traveling under phony passports as fake missionaries or ambassadors. Still more troubling, one could hide in plain sight as a cleric or academic while harboring criminals, assassins, and conspirators of coup d’etats.

What all this boils down to is this: DaCosta affiliated himself in the same church synod as Oswald’s mentor, David Ferrie. The bridge, ultimately, is Christopher Maria C.J. Stanley, archbishop in the American Orthodox Catholic Church who consecrated Ferrie, Jack Martin, Guy Banister and others in Banister’s office into his church in 1961.

This strand of the clerical network, then, goes from a disgraced former CAP Illinois Wing Commander (DaCosta), who was a co-CAP incorporator with Texas commander D.H. Byrd, through a very small and esoteric strand of the Old Roman Catholic Church to David Ferrie and the CAP Louisiana squadron at Moisant Airport, of which Oswald was a cadet under Ferrie, and finally to the Texas School Book Depository, owned by Byrd.

It should be noted that this vast network that involved DaCosta, Stanley and Ferrie, leads to affiliations under the umbrella of the radical right wing: white Russians (Zhurawetsky), anti-communists (Propheta), right-wing generals (Willoughby) and colonels (Fuge), John Birch Society members (F.C. King), occult practitioners (de Witow), and hypnotherapists — DaCosta and Ferrie, included. It is no secret, of course, that hypnotism hovers over the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK.

Moreover, on April 1, 1959, General McElroy became the National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol. In January 1960, Ferrie was appointed aide to McElroy. At this very time, Byrd is the Chairman of the CAP National Executive Board, from April 1959-April 1960. That Ferrie, as McElroy’s aide, interacted with Byrd during this time seems a foregone conclusion. Also during this time, Oswald defects to Russia. In 1961, Ferrie is arrested on his morals charge; in November of 1961, Ferrie is consecrated bishop by Stanley. After JFK’s assassination, Stanley will tell authorities Ferrie and Martin told him of a plan to assassinate Kennedy, a full two years before the ambush in Dealey Plaza.

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Ferrie, right, was aide to National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol, General McElroy, left, at the time D.H. Byrd is Chairman of the CAP National Executive Board

There is, of course, more to unpack and probe in this regard, but given the research into this world of faux-bishops who aligned politically with the radical right, I am confident that the DaCosta-Byrd association as high commanders in the Civil Air Patrol, the same outfit that attracted the likes of Ferrie, Oswald, Barry Seal, and other adventurers, will only reveal in due time that bad actors in the Civil Air Patrol utilized its function to recruit young American patriots willing to preserve their white Christian country against the onslaught of godless communists.

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Top photo: David Ferrie, with helmet, oversees a squadron of cadets which included Lee Oswald, far right. Below, left, Texas Wing Commander of CAP, D.H. Byrd, owner of the Texas School Book Depository, right, where ex-CAP cadet Oswald worked for five weeks until November 22, 1963.

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  Union Institute Circling Drain
Posted by: Robert L. Peters - 12-03-2023, 09:21 AM - Forum: Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited - Replies (1)

The burning dumpster fire that was Union Institute & University is about to be extinguished. Once sarcastically dubbed by one commenter as "the Union Finishing School," the alma mater of such luminaries Rolleyes as Rich "Mini Me" Douglas and Steve Levijerkoff is now itself finished. 

Students and employees getting screwed over? HLC may look into it, when they find the time. Annual accrediting dues not paid? HLC on the war path!

Quote:'Egregious failure': Union Institute loses federal aid, fined millions for misuse of funds
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Published November 29, 2023 at 4:53 AM EST
 
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Union Institute & University headquarters in Walnut Hills.

Union Institute & University's days may be numbered after losing its access to federal financial aid on Monday and receiving a nearly $4.3 million fine from the U.S. Department of Education for several violations.

Since the beginning of the year, the Cincinnati-based university has failed to consistently pay its employees and give many of its students their federal loan refunds.

Earlier this month, the Department of Education informed Union Institute it would take emergency action and terminate the school's eligibility to participate in federal aid programs. That means all students attending the university will have to pay out of pocket to stay enrolled. Schools that have received a similar penalty — like ITT Technical Institute — closed soon after. Union Institute had the opportunity to appeal the emergency action and fine by this Monday, but the department has not yet said if the university has done so.

RELATED: Union Institute students and staff have little confidence as school faces sanctions, investigations

The department claims immediate action became necessary to prevent further misuse of funds after it analyzed multiple complaints from students and staff along with documents provided by Union Institute.

According to a letter sent by the department to Union Institute & University President Karen Schuster Webb, the school committed "serious, ongoing violations of Title IV regulations," including using federal student aid money to pay off delinquent debts.

The letter goes on to describe the poor financial and educational conditions at the university, calling Union Institute's handling of federal dollars an "egregious failure to protect UIU students' Title IV funds."

Union Institute has not held classes for undergraduate students this fall due to a lack of money and staff. Some students in the school's graduate and Ph.D. programs have been able to continue working on their degrees because all communication with instructors happens online. Still, based on this information, the Department of Education says due to widespread resignations among faculty and in its business office, Union has stopped providing many, if not all, the educational services and instruction promised to students.

No employees have been paid since August and the school owes nearly $450,000 in back rent for its headquarters in Walnut Hills. Employees say Union Institute was first locked out of its headquarters in August and were officially evicted from the building recently.

More than $753,000 in federal dollars is owed to 157 students which Union has apparently been unable to pay because it neglected to properly identify accounts containing federal funds. Because of Union's debt, a third party placed a lien on UIU's bank account, taking $200,000 worth of federal money intended for students.

RELATED: Faculty call for investigation into management at Union Institute

On top of all this, Union Institute has not paid its annual dues to its accrediting agency, the High Learning Commission (HLC).

In early October, the HLC sent a letter to Union informing the school that it was not in compliance with the "obligations of membership," because of their inability to respond to complaints submitted against the institution.

Union Institute was also required to submit a provisional teach-out plan so students could transfer their credits to other schools, but it also failed to do this as well.

HLC's website shows the Union Institute is still an accredited university, though its status is still up for review. The accrediting agency went over the school's finances in late October to determine whether to change its status. A spokesperson for HLC says this process can take several months.

Union Institute & University's website is still inviting students to apply for its next term set to begin in January 2024, though students and staff who have spoken with WVXU expressed little confidence this will actually happen.

For now, faculty say they're demanding university leadership make a definitive decision about the upcoming term and present a teach-out plan by Dec. 1 so students can more easily transfer.

As many students await such a plan from the university, others who are close to finishing their degrees tell WVXU they plan on finishing their programs before the end of the year. Whether they'll actually receive a diploma from Union Institute remains to be seen.

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  DoE Afraid of Innovation
Posted by: Robert L. Peters - 10-25-2023, 06:48 AM - Forum: Distance Learning Discussion - No Replies

Quote:Why Is Education Department Afraid of Innovation in Higher Ed?
Adam Kissel / @kissel_adam / October 19, 2023

Online learning has revolutionized higher education, but a recent move by the federal Department of Education is threatening to tear down systems that are helping millions of students learn.

An extremely wide diversity of students choose to take online courses or to get entire online degrees. Colleges that offer them need to be nimble as the economy changes, yet traditional colleges are slow to change, and they often lack the expertise and funding to develop and manage online courses independently.

That’s a key reason online program management companies have sprung up to serve the need, working with colleges to help students.

Yet the Department of Education, apparently allergic to profit of any kind, earlier this year swept online program management companies and a vast array of other providers into its “third-party servicer” rule, promising a heavy-handed regulatory regime.

That move has injected deep uncertainty into the entire higher education sector, leading to diminished investment and layoffs in the online program management industry.

The problem is that Congress clearly described what a third-party servicer is, but the Department of Education does not like to stay within the law. The latter specifies that a third-party servicer only includes those that help with “student assistance programs”; that is, with managing students’ financial aid.

The department now argues that even providing a course counts, since a student might get financial aid to take the course. A recruiting service that also notes the existence of financial aid also would count.

All of that is an arbitrary modification of the law to attack online program management companies.

Even worse, the department announced this major change, sweeping a new set of companies into regulation, without actually regulating or negotiating. The department just issued a notice.

The backlash was swift and furious, so the department voided the effective date. That means the new definition of a third-party servicer is still the official position of the department, but it’s not being enforced. At any moment, the department could decide it’s ready to move forward to throttle online program management companies and many others in higher education.

The department’s move is likely to increase students’ costs and stifle innovation in postsecondary education.

More and more prospective students are choosing alternatives to a traditional bachelor’s degree, determining that its benefits are not worth the rapidly rising cost. Traditional colleges are keeping up by offering online courses or sub-degree programs. But burdening them with new regulatory compliance costs will divert resources from students to administrators.

Additionally, one-size-fits-all federal regulations are ill-suited to the rapid innovation in postsecondary education, which is increasing access, improving the educational experience, and reducing costs for millions of students nationwide.

Frankly, no federal agency is nimble enough to keep up with the sector’s rapid innovation. Therefore, the best way to help students is to stay out of the way.

Furthermore, interfering with the freedom to contract in education will limit the sector and ultimately diminish options for students.
Online program management companies have been one of America’s greatest innovations for providing scalable, low-cost college access. They would hardly have been possible without freedom to contract, innovate, and adapt outside of burdensome government oversight.

Indeed, colleges’ contracts with online program management companies tend to use revenue sharing, which helps institutions transfer financial risk to their online program management partners while these companies devote large sums to capital investment.

This model enables less-resourced institutions to enter the market, compete, and maybe save themselves from bankruptcy. Without online program management companies, less well-resourced institutions with larger numbers of nontraditional students will be left further and further behind.

The Department of Education should stick with its narrow authority under the law—no more and no less. That means withdrawing the new definition entirely.

The department needs to learn that profit is not scary. To the contrary, private enterprise through voluntary exchange makes all parties better off.

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  ‘Sizzler’ Cert = Business Degree?
Posted by: Robert L. Peters - 08-21-2023, 04:54 AM - Forum: Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited - No Replies

Another physics genius making false claims because he thought nobody would check.

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Sunday, August 20, 2023
Jack Montgomery

DeSantis PAC Chair Claimed ‘Sizzler’ Certificate was Business Degree.

One of the chairmen of Ron DeSantis’s Super PAC ‘Never Back Down’ attempted to pass off a training certificate from the ‘Sizzler’ restaurant chain as a business degree when running for office in Iowa, The National Pulse can reveal.

Mark Chelgren, one of a number of controversial county chairmen for the DeSantis PAC in the Hawkeye State, is a former State Senator who was exposed as having burnished his resume by claiming to have a “degree” in business from Forbco Management – a now-defunct company that ran a Sizzler franchise.

“This was a management course he took when he worked for Sizzler, kind of like Hamburger University at McDonald’s,” admitted a spokesman for the Republican Party in Iowa at the time, confirming Chelgren got a “certificate” rather than a degree.

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Chelgren, who approved the bogus biography, played dumb after the ruse came to light, suggesting he didn’t know “a degree and a certificate are different.”

His biography also claimed he “attended the University of California at Riverside majoring in astro-physics, geo-physics and mathematics,” and biographies elsewhere claimed he received a full degree from that institution. He later admitted he did not actually graduate from the University of California.

Chelgren exited the Iowa Senate in 2019, and failed to win reelection to the Iowa House in 2022. He is now the chairman of the Appanoose County, Iowa ‘Never Back Down’ operation.

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  University Targets Christian Student, Pays the Price
Posted by: Don Dresden - 08-01-2023, 03:51 PM - Forum: General Education Discussions - No Replies

Quote:University Targets Christian Student, Pays the Price When She Takes It to Court

By Peter Partoll  July 29, 2023 at 11:03am

Officials at a college in Illinois are facing the consequences after a Christian student sued them for violating her First Amendment rights.

In February 2022, Maggie DeJong, a grad student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, was hit with no-contact orders from the university barring her from communicating with three students who had complained about her expressing her conservative Christian beliefs.

While the orders were rescinded after SIUE received a letter from DeJong’s attorney, they were later reinstated. As a result, DeJong took the university to court with the help of the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom.

Now, ADF is reporting victory for DeJong, and SIUE is being forced to pay up for violating her right to free speech.

As part of the settlement reached between the parties, ADF attorneys will be conducting a “First Amendment training session” with three SIUE professors, according to an ADF news release.
 
University officials also agreed to revise their policies to allow for freedom of expression in the art therapy program, which DeJong was a part of, and to pay her $80,000.

ADF legal counsel Matthew Hoffman celebrated the ruling in a statement.

“Public universities can’t punish students for expressing their political and religious viewpoints,” he said.

“Maggie, like every other student, is protected under the First Amendment to respectfully share her personal beliefs, and university officials were wrong to issue gag orders and silence her speech.

“As a result of Maggie’s courage in filing suit, SIUE has agreed to take critical steps to comply with the law and the U.S. Constitution and move closer to accepting and embracing true diversity of thought and speech.”

DeJong’s story should serve as a warning to college administrators, but also as a message of hope for conservative students.

There is a war on Christianity and conservatism taking place in higher education, as almost all universities are under leftist control. Given the left’s indifference to the Constitution, they will go to great lengths to censor dissenting opinions.

Christian students who attend these universities should expect to be mistreated by classmates and officials for expressing their beliefs. They should not be surprised when they are faced with a situation similar to DeJong’s — although her lawsuit will hopefully deter the more overt forms of suppression.

We would do well to remember the words of Christ in the Gospel of John: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:18-19).

But this story also reminds us that when Christians stand firm in their beliefs, they can win victories even in our day and age. DeJong stood up to her school’s unjust policies and came out on top.

Conservatives cannot be passive victims of leftist aggression. They need to be willing to fight back and show them that there will be consequences for their unconstitutional actions.

If other college students can be as brave as Maggie DeJong, then the left will be forced to back down from its radical tactics.

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  Outrageous Tuition Rise
Posted by: Armando Ramos - 07-10-2023, 07:09 AM - Forum: General Education Discussions - No Replies

Quote:Posted on July 7, 2023 by Steven Hayward
The Daily Chart: College Bloat After the Loan Decision

Harvey Mansfield once quipped that the Democratic Party is a coalition of college professors and morons, which prompted "Lucretia" to remark on a podcast that it is impossible to tell the difference. But if higher education wasn't an adjunct of the Democratic Party, surely the left would be charging the industry with consumer fraud and price gouging. The left likes to talk endlessly about the soaring cost of health care, but the cost of higher education has risen more than any other sector of our economy over the last 40 years, because government has turned higher education into a giant subsidy-capture machine. And few things have been more central to increasing subsidies colleges could capture than easy student loans. One may hope the Supreme Court decision on Friday to disallow forgiveness of student loans by executive fiat will pump the brakes on college costs, but don't count on it.

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  Accreditation = Woke Scam
Posted by: Martin Eisenstadt - 06-17-2023, 05:10 PM - Forum: Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited - No Replies

Quote:Accreditation? A Woke, Good-Cop-Bad-Cop Scam
The 'diversity" bug afflicts almost all of academia; dissenters face opprobrium. But the very same mindset controls accreditors.

By Teresa R. Manning
June 16, 2023

Congress may soon revisit the federal law governing post-secondary education, the Higher Education Act of 1965. If it does, Representative Burgess Owens (R-Utah) wants the effort to expose and correct the murky mischief of our accreditation system. That system was supposed to ensure institutional quality before schools could get federal funds like Title IV student loans. But now accreditors want to impose left-wing politics instead, while academic rigor goes out the window.

Owens? bill, titled Accreditation for College Excellence ("ACE"), would prohibit accrediting agencies from imposing politics on schools as part of accreditation. Such political litmus tests or "loyalty oaths" are now actually routinely demanded by schools themselves of prospective faculty and students. For example, universities have begun to insist that professors pledge allegiance to diversity ideology--aka "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" or "DEI." DEI is a euphemism for pitting Americans against each other based on race and it often amounts to open, reverse discrimination against those of European descent and/or Christian heritage, aka "whites." (Some schools actually use brown cartoon figures on their websites to show which ethnic groups get favored as "diverse.")

The ACE is valuable since it would prevent accreditors from piling on to this diversity bandwagon and it also sheds light on the obscure area of accreditation. But bad accreditors and bad-actor schools have deeper roots than the current "diversity" craze. So policy corrections must also dig deeper if they're to be effective.

The real problem is that those running accrediting agencies are cut from the same cloth as those running American educational institutions. Unfortunately, these people are anti-American and anti-Western Civilization ideologues intent on feeding that ideology to everyone while enriching themselves in the process. This leaves American students politicized and ignorant, and American taxpayers frustrated and poorer. The winners? Diversity bureaucrats peddling anti-Americanism.

One disturbing example in higher education came from "diversity efforts" at Virginia's James Madison University: In August 2021, the school mandated an orientation video for incoming freshmen. The video divided the country into two main classes--the "oppressors" and the 'oppressed."

Among the oppressors? Americans.

Similar simplistic anti-Americanism is propagated through academic movements like ?Critical Race Theory? (CRT), a pedagogy used in both high school and college. Promoted by people like Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Anti-Racist, CRT teaches that America has been systemically racist since its beginnings, even as refugees and immigrants risk their lives to come here and as ethnic caste systems and slavery thrive elsewhere in the world. (In fact, honest researchers typically find that America is among the least racially bigoted countries.) Divisive theories like CRT actually want to create and foster racial tension since that keeps the race industrial complex alive?that is, it keeps race hustlers like Kendi employed.

This diversity bug afflicts almost all of academia; dissenters face opprobrium. But the very same mindset controls accreditors. For example, the Council on Higher Education Accreditation or ?CHEA?, an oversight body that ?represents more than 6,000 U.S. colleges and universities and recognizes six major U.S. regional accreditors,? now requires official commitment to DEI from the institutions it works with. CHEA officials say, ?the decision to add DEI substandards represents a major step in advancing accreditation standards across the country.

Actually, the advance of DEI in education and accreditation coincides with a decline in academic achievement. Any reasonable person can see that ideology is displacing instruction and real learning.

In graduate education like law and medicine, the story is even worse. As the sole accreditor of law schools, the American Bar Association (?ABA?) has an unchecked monopoly on accrediting institutions of legal education, so it demands whatever it wants. The result? The Left controls almost every American law school, with Democratic professors outnumbering Republicans by a ratio of 50 to one. Job openings in legal education routinely require ?diversity? statements or values from applicants (or use the partner buzz terms like ?inclusion? and ?equity?). State bar associations follow suit and now even require ?diversity? classes for lawyers to keep their law license, with the approval of state courts

The ABA was actually sued years ago by the Justice Department for antitrust violations when it unlawfully enriched law schools and law professors as part of the accreditation process. It not only hindered new law schools from entering the legal education field but it also demanded high salaries and long sabbaticals for law professors?all as a condition of law school accreditation! This rank self-interest persisted even as law graduates faced unemployment and law firms that did hire law graduates complained that they were not practice-ready. No surprise there since most law professors also lack experience in legal practice?an obvious deficiency in legal education. But the ABA has no time for that. It?s too busy demanding ?diversity.??

Schools often complain they must jump through hoops to satisfy accreditors as if they?re victims of outside political forces. Hogwash. Schools and accreditors are on the same woke team, playing good cop/bad cop against America. They work hand in glove.

Maybe Rep. Owens will consider addressing this larger picture.

The solution, of course, is to restore political balance both in higher education institutions and in accrediting agencies. Political balance is routinely required for governmental and educational entities: State Boards of Regents, which oversee state universities, are often required by law to not have more than a certain number of members from one political party, for example. The same is true of many federal and state commissions like the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Couldn?t Congress demand a similar political balance of both educational institutions and accreditors?

Let?s hope Burgess Owens will think on that.

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  Spawner of Evil Croaks
Posted by: WilliamW - 05-13-2023, 03:22 PM - Forum: George Gollin - Replies (7)

It only took 70 years, but the shame of spawning an evil ethics violator must have finally gotten to her. Rot in hell, Gollin pig.

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CHAMPAIGN - Dolores Rebecca Joseph, 94, of Champaign passed away Friday, May 5, 2023, at ClarkLindsey, Urbana.

Dolores, born July 9, 1928, was the fourth child of Lewis Joseph and Rose (Flaxman) Joseph. Lew was a New York City detective and then assistant district attorney, while Rose earned a degree in law but never practiced, instead staying home to raise their children, Ruth, Elaine, Edwin and Dolores.

Dolores was preceded in death by her older siblings.

Dolores was twice married and twice divorced; both ex-husbands were named Sidney. The first Sidney was the father of their two children, George Gollin, a physics professor at the University of Illinois, and Olivia Gollin Hoepfl, a retired special-education teacher and coordinator, living in Ohio. George and his wife, Melanie Loots, are parents to Dolores' first grandchild, Cordelia, while Olivia and her husband, Bill Hoepfl, are parents to Dolores' second grandchild, Lucas. Cordelia and her husband, Viraj, are the parents of Anjali, Dolores' great-granddaughter.

Dolores earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Brooklyn and Queens College, taught English in New York City and suburban schools, and eventually moved into administration as an assistant principal. She retired in 1986 and joined her sisters in a senior citizens' residential community outside Princeton. There she met Donald Jones, a retired physician who became her partner in life for nearly 20 years. Dolores and Donald eventually moved to Champaign to be closer to her family.

Dolores was a strong, aggressive tennis player who regularly trounced the (male) teachers with whom she would play and, after retiring, played with a group of women who were 30 years her junior. She was a talented pianist, blasting through complicated pieces like the Grieg Piano Concerto and solo-piano reductions of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and other compositions. Dolores loved Chautauqua Institution and vacationed there during summers for more than 30 years. She was loving, strong-willed, charismatic and wonderful mother and grandmother who loved to cook.

We will miss her and will celebrate her life Sunday, May 14, at 3 p.m., at Renner-Wikoff Chapel, 1900 Philo Road, Urbana.

Published by The News-Gazette on May 12, 2023.

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