(08-20-2019 03:32 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(08-20-2019 03:27 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(08-20-2019 03:20 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  https://reason.com/2019/08/19/pew-survey...fe-spaces/

Only half of all Americans now have a positive view of colleges and universities, according to a new survey from Pew Research. The number of people who take a negative view has increased from 26 percent in 2012 to 38 percent in 2019.

The change largely reflects a growing dissatisfaction on the right with the culture of college campuses. The percentage of Republicans who see value in higher education has collapsed in recent years, from 53 percent in 2012 to just 23 percent in 2019.

According to Pew:

Roughly eight-in-ten Republicans (79%) say professors bringing their political and social views into the classroom is a major reason why the higher education system is headed in the wrong direction (only 17% of Democrats say the same). And three-quarters of Republicans (vs. 31% of Democrats) point to too much concern about protecting students from views they might find offensive as a major reason for their views. In addition, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say students not getting the skills they need to succeed in the workplace is a major reason why the higher education system is headed in the wrong direction (73% vs. 56%).

Democrats who take a negative view of higher ed are most likely to cite rising costs as the issue.

I'm curious if any of the conservatives folks here put themselves in that classification. Or even if you do, would you say Rice University is bad for America?

Let's employ some of those critical thinking skills we learned at Rice, shall we? Try commenting on the bolded context instead of the clickbait headline, then we can have an intelligent discussion.

From the get go, that article explained why Republicans think college is bad for America. It most certainly was not click bait. I'm just curious if you think that culture exists at Rice as well.

To one of the bolded points - ironically, some of the people best equipped to enter the work place are those with humanity degrees like history. Those students are really well versed in writing and critical thinking, when compared to engineering students (like myself). A significant portion of my engineering job is communicating data and results, and I did not write nearly enough papers in my engineering courses at Rice to prepare me for that fact.

I doubt that those are the skills either political party is talking about, because both love to bash humanities majors.