US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate degrees

Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by Loughla on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:37AM (#24628342)

>My humanities classes 20 years ago all glossed over

>I had to learn about all these things from my history classes.

So the education provided you with multiple, different viewpoints, then. If you evaluate specific, individual classes, yes, you'll find a bias depending on the specific, individual faculty. I had faculty ranging from those who extolled the virtues of a strong-man in the white house, to those who wanted a complete anarchy.

I'm willing to bet most university/college educations contain a little bit of everything.

Or, put more simply, wide ranging viewpoints. . . .

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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by dx87 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:11AM (#24628762)

Depending on how you define "a little bit of everything", you'd lose that bet. Colleges have always leaned left politically, but the viewpoint imbalance has been getting larger in recent years. The last study I read said that in social sciences, colleges average 17:1 liberal to conservative professors, whereas in previous decades it was around 4:1. My wife got out of teaching at college because the schools were more interested in pushing a far left ideology that appeals to college students than actually giving them a good education.

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Re:US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate d... by adamsea on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:27AM (#24628968)

> schools were more interested in pushing a far left ideology that appeals to college students than actually giving them a good education.

Can you summarize the ideology, instead of merely demonizing it? ;)

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