Why worry about what Trump might do when you have a rich history of what St Obama and Queen Hillary did. I mean, what on earth did Libya do to threaten our national security? At least Iran shot down a US military asset, but Trump didn’t attack. Hillary and St Obama engaged in a completely optional war that turned…

Yeah, i’m sure you’re right.  I don’t have that much vision into it, I just know what i’m being handed as the end result.  Its a failure up and down the line

We’re certainly in an odd place right now, a Republican president resisting the war drums and the rest of the media and political apparatus insisting that we have a war. I doubt Trump is worried about the war itself, unless timed perfectly would hurt rather than help his re-election campaign. I could be wrong! I do…

I’m in favor of punishing business owners who hire illegals, full stop. I’ve had to provide my US birth certificate or my passport for every job i’ve ever had. I understand that will drive up costs for small businesses (and large!) that employ illegals, but tough shit.

So funneling money into Central American will solve the issue? It won’t just get completely hoovered up by the corrupt scumbags that seem to populate virtually all of the leadership class in Central and South America?

So call for open borders. Trump has proposed a number of ways to mitigate the issue, none of which are acceptable for the ultra-woke AOC wing of the party. If we can’t build a wall, and can’t adequately fund border security, then the only answer is open borders, so be brave and admit that’s what you’re demanding.  You…

The alternative to these camps is open borders. We know that’s the subtext to all the mewling on the left about the camps and treatment of illegals. Between the resistance to building a wall, or properly funding border security, everyone who is paying attention can see what’s happening and why.

Far left liberals can continue to pretend (against all evidence and logic) that AOC wasn’t comparing camps on the southern border to Nazi death camps. The issue is, she very obviously did intend the comparison, she just badly miscalculated how it would be received outside of her own Choir. Falling back on a dictionary…

In state students also pay State taxes (or at least their parents do) that go to support the University. Why shouldn’t out of state/foreign students pay more?  If there’s no in-state students, how long do you imagine the tax payers of that state are going to want to continue supporting the school?

REad the rest of my posts. In this very thread. We’ve been over all that. I related my experience from the very large public university that I worked at 20+ years ago. They were laying off full professors, replacing them with adjuncts and grad students, all while creating a huge new Diversity bureaucracy. I’m not…

I’d like both my Governments and my Unversities (at least the ones at which I’m paying tuition) to be efficient with their money. I somehow doubt there’s anything like a 1:1 relationship between administrative bloat and services provided. My own personal experience tells me that it’s a lot of self serving bureaucracy…

I’m not against having a women’s center per se, but most of those were founded when there was still an imbalance in college attendance between men and women, it’s flipped now, obviously, and the divide is growing. God help anyone who might suggest that we need a mens center to encourage academic participation by young…

That certainly explains some and/or most of it. I’ve never heard a parent say (or considered myself when looking at colleges with my daughter) that I really wanted a University with a bloated administration. As it turns out, we ended up with that anyways! it’s growing hard to avoid, in fact.

Just one note, there are very few College sports programs that pay for themselves. Generally speaking, college sports are a money pit. I enjoy college football and basketball, but i’m not entirely sure that the schools should be subsidising them at a time when they can’t afford to pay instructional staff.

Dramatically reduce the administration. Declare a moratorium on new buildings on campus unless they are directly related to instruction. No new sports stadiums. Use shared services where possible. I’m just spitballing based on my own experience, but the fact that budgets and tuition have raced way far ahead of the…

Today, that’s true, and I stand corrected. There was a time when there was less of a divide than there is today, where the administration seems to be in a very different business than the instructors and researchers

For some of the labor.  The part of the labor that are, you know, actually involved in instruction and research.  The vast army of administrators that contribute exactly nothing to educating students are made in the shade though.  Those are the jobs you want in Academia now, at least up until this comes to it’s…

And they keep building gleaming new buildings that are housing something (???) while lecture centers get more crowded, with fewer full professors (more adjuncts and grad students) actually instructing anyone at the 100 and 200 levels of classes.

Agreed. I touched on this in another thread, i’ve been a hiring manager/director for most of the last 20 years. There’s been an observable and disturbing downward trend in the quality of college graduates, especially in terms of reading comprehension and ability to write clearly, or for that matter, in complete…

Thats why he felt so bad he had to give them hundreds of billions of dollars for absolutely nothing in return. There’s still some question who actually deployed stuxnet. The Infosec community is reasonably sure it was developed by the US, but that Israel probably operationalized it and got it introduced to Iran’s…