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Monday, December 20, 2010

Toledo Blade Makes Front Page of Blog

See http://toledoblade.com/article/20101220/NEWS16/12190369/0/images

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting take in this article. It is almost as if the family that owns this paper is also represented on the Board of Trustees of the University of Toledo. Obviously not Jacobs' fault, he is doing what the trustees want. Not the Board's fault, they get to write the article. Must be those durn professors!

Anonymous said...

Student loan debt approaching $1 trillion - the next real estate bubble implosion in the making.

Can higher ed survive this?

Can the U.S. economy?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40772705/ns/business-cnbc_tv

Anonymous said...

If the financial elites of the nation continue to siphon off cash and profits for themselves and foreign investment without letting people share in the growth, then there is not much future for any part of our nation. The crises is acute in state and municipal governments, everywhere. People simply are not being employed in a way that can sustain the economy.

Anonymous said...

The attack on American education...
http://robertreich.org/

Anonymous said...

The deepest problem with our university is that everybody looks at it as one large carcass, of which each is determined to eat until full. The administrators and trustees see it as a giant employment agency-cum-venture capital play. Faculty see it as an indoctrination camp, to ensure that students take the correct courses, and I have to say I don't see a lot of hard work going on to justify relatively light teaching loads. Students see it as a credit hour printing press, distributing diplomas for tuition + occasional attendance. Athletics sees 20,000 marks whose pockets can be picked over and over again. The library lends video games and potboilers.

I think the only critters who actually work for their living around here are the falcons on the bell tower.

Maybe the large public university should just be allowed to implode of its own weight of bullshit.

Happy new year.

Anonymous said...

Anon 8:33

Thank you for some of the most straightforward, no-nonsense anti-bullshit commentary about UT and higher ed since zoroxyz left the airwaves of this blog.

The vast, elitist higher ed cartel has established a multi-hundred-billion-dollar monopoly on knowledge certification - which wouldn't be so bad if they actually did their job of educating the young with even half assed effectiveness and efficiency.

Put all the education content and nest teachers online and begin the new age of truly efficient, effective, equitable, democratic, free, universally accessible K-PhD education NOW.

America can't wait around any longer for Superman to show up.

Anonymous said...

As a hard-working faculty member who believes in the role of the public university (hopefully our President does as well), I find the posting by Anon 8:33 truly offensive. I also find it hard to imagine that anyone who knows and/or cares for the University of Toledo (or Ohio State University) could put forth such a string of misleading and offensive statements. I'm sure that the hard-working science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine students do not view it as a "credit-hour printing press" nor do students who are pre-law, pre-medicine or who are in the professional schools. The same goes for students in the colleges of business, nursing, medicine, performing arts, and literature and social sciences. They are certainly required to do much more than "occasional attendance" to earn their degrees. In addition, due to the financial situation, faculty, staff, and students are all being forced to "do more with less". The real question is: do the people of Ohio (including the newly-elected Governor) believe that higher education is important, and are they willing to support higher education as an investment in the future ?

Anonymous said...

Anon 9:53 calls the post of Anon 8:33 offensive; I'd add the post of Anon 4:32, and call them both ignorant as well. But posters like Anon 8:33 and 4:32 are the ones (if they are indeed two separate posters and not one posturing as two to promote their own platform) we as educators strive to reach and the ones who would benefit most from the kind of education they are trying to tear down and deny others--if they can open their minds to let the ignorance out and the thinking in.

Bloggie said...

Aren't we holy?

Anonymous said...

Escalation of the war on the middle-class now focused on public-employees:
http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/FEATURE-NEWS/SECRET-GOP-PLAN-TO-PUSH-STATES-TO-DECLARE-BANKRUPTCY-br-To-kill-off-public-employee-unions-554364