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By Professor Doom      Just when I think higher education can�t become any more warped�it reaches a new level of dementedness. Let�s take a look: Old white academics are 'unable' to teach black students because they're potentially racist, complain students       People, even very educated people, say some pretty stupid things at times, but how exactly did this level of idiocy actually make it to this level of publicity? Once the stupid thing was said, was there truly nobody down the line of communication who said �Wait. What?�?      I learned Spanish from a Cuban, and Mandarin from someone born in China, and many of my mathematics courses were taught by people with a different skin than me (they were primarily from India)�it never occurred to me that their ethnicity could possibly prevent me from learning.       I�ve quoted but one line, above, but it�s such a train wreck that I feel the need to p...

By Professor Doom       The mainstream media�s narrative really seems to be that tenure, and not the takeover by administrators (and social justice warriors), is a big part of the collapse of higher education.      Hey, I realize that �job for life� does sound like it has immense potential for abuse but compared to the abuse administrators already deliver to higher education, every single day, it�s hard to be concerned about tenure.       It takes at least 7 years of perfect scholarship to even have a chance of tenure, while administrators get endless promotions and pay raises no matter how horrifically they fail . Even if tenure weren�t already a dying institution ( most teachers in higher ed are poverty-wage-no-benefits adjuncts as it is ), it�s still not a concern, as tenure isn�t �job for life.� Even with decades of service, you can still lose your job in higher ed quite easily, all admin has to do is provide a r...

By Professor Doom      In my decades working in higher education, I�ve noted time and again how administrators seem like they�re trying to get fired. Perhaps that�s an exaggeration, but their incompetence so often seems deliberate, and I�ve met far too many admin who, first day on the job, are only too happy to explain how their plan is to go somewhere else as soon as possible.       Inevitably, the job change includes a massive pay raise at the new place, and a golden parachute from the old. When I wrote before of the amazing career of a 1%-er , it really was striking how the guy got disgracefully fired from job after job, only to get a better job with a bigger pay raise, every time.        Insult to injury, of course, was how every firing included a sweet payoff, a golden parachute that, on a per student basis, usually could account entirely for a given year�s tuition increase. It�s infuriating that that guy�s car...