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politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days ago

It's unfortunate that criticizing academia in the US has become a right-coded thing, because the state of higher education in this country really is bad. Is there a way that could be turned around?

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It's unfortunate that criticizing academia in the US has become a right-coded thing, because the state of higher education in this country really is bad. Is there a way that could be turned around?

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politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days ago

Question was inspired by this essay: https://whitehotharlots.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-higher-education-is

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america doesn’t have universities anymore, just hedge funds with lecture halls attached
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  Or sports enterprises with a side hustle in education
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  This is truer than a lot of people realize I think

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