Joe Biden Can’t Save Higher Education, But Real Education Can – AMAC

AMAC Exclusive – By David P. Devel

The time lag between Democratic politicians and the “mainstream” media complex celebrating (or pretending to celebrate) the Biden administration’s move and buyer reflection on that move is getting shorter and shorter. Joe Biden’s announcement of a program of college loan cancellations, tolerance, and income-based repayment caused hosannas for about 10 minutes before doubts, denials, and accusations set in. It takes a heart of stone not to laugh is.

Democrats have largely ignored this most important issue of the legality of forgiveness. After all, they profess a belief in a “living constitution” whose meaning may “grow”, but only in ways that increase their democratic power. I’m starting to notice political issues.

Most people recognize that the giveaway is a political ploy to pay off the Democratic Party’s base. That this is a problem has not gone unnoticed by other politicians. NBC reported that Democrats in election campaigns in tough battleground states are fleeing the move. Not surprisingly, given the reality that the majority of Americans do not have a college degree. Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio is quoted as saying in a tough race to replace Republican Senator Rob Portman: It’s hard to make ends meet. “

But never mind your political views. How this works out looks similar financially and administratively to the regime’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 (the impact of which is still trapped there). not only Americans and American allies who are being attacked fled). Axios The Biden administration does not appear to have a plan for how this will work and appears to be outsourcing it to the Department of Education.

As for the final cost issue, the Penn Wharton Budget Analysis looks at this issue and predicts eventual spending at least $600 billion or more, and more realistically over $1 trillion over ten years. In other words, this is an Obamacare-scale financial bankruptcy, with lawlessness, improper enforcement, skewed incentives, political division, and stupidity all included.

Yeah, it will have some effect on inflation.according to obama’s Chief economist Jason Furman apparently didn’t read Penn Wharton’s study.

To paraphrase the previous president who worked with the current president, never underestimate Joe’s ability to screw things up.

But as an academic myself, let me ask you a very important question. Is it good for professors?

Well, it might help some professors who are still paying off their loans, but this is a problem for those getting these benefits. as a professor? That is highly unlikely.

Enrollment in colleges and universities has fallen like a stone since at least 2010. Parents and students are logically skeptical about the career value of a four-year degree. Not to mention the costs that keep rising every year. After two years of her draconian COVID restrictions, vaccine mandates and attempts to get students to pay the same price for online classes, students are ditching the college system even faster. From fall 2019 to he fall 2021, American institutions of higher education have lost more than 1 million of her undergraduates. According to Doug Shapiro, executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, “This is a decline of about 6.5%, the largest two-year decline we’ve seen in at least the last 50 years. The U.S. for Undergraduates: A Plunge That’s About Double the Largest Ever.” By spring 2022, the center was reporting a further 4.1% drop in student numbers.

This fall is not going to get any better. Report from Lending Tree’s Estimate Wizard We’ve discovered this year’s potential students:

• 29% of potential students canceled all classes due to COVID-19
• 36% of students are now taking classes in another format (online).
• 9% of students changed schools due to COVID

That’s not surprising. While the rest of the country is largely back to normal, his 2020 ideas on COVID are still bogging down many higher education institutions. Georgetown University has shown it has noticeably poorer readings in its rooms, and this fall it made it mandatory for students in classes, labs, and school transport vehicles to wear masks.

Most important to this equation, however, is how modern higher education has led to a dictatorship that does not follow science and modern segregation in the form of separate but arguably equal spaces for students of different races and colors. It oscillates wildly between a return to , well, not very good at teaching.

America’s higher education is rushing toward the 2026 population cliff (the country experienced a sharp decline in births in 2008 and has yet to recover). It is not surprising that most of these institutions are rooted in religious and political visions that have not been clearly awakened.

Big winners included Hillsdale College in Michigan, which boasted the second-largest freshman class ever this year. More impressive than the final numbers are the other stats. The new class only made up 20% of all applications, averaging 32 in the ACT and a grade point average of 3.94 for him. Hillsdale is one of the few schools in the country to deny all federal student aid, including student loans. No Hillsdale alum gets loan forgiveness for failing to pay its system.

Many schools that have loans don’t take Kool-Aid. At my own institution, St. Thomas College in Houston, I had the largest freshman class ever. This is more than 100 more students than last year’s record year. So is the University of Dallas, where my son attends. Like Hillsdale, it had only the second-largest class this fall (it was the largest last year), but space is an issue many of these colleges have to face. Ohio’s Cedarville University also posted record enrollments for the 13th year in a row.

We could go on and on, but this quick survey will tell you everything you need to know. Hillsdale and Cedarville are serious institutions rooted in Protestant tradition (although Hillsdale has a minority of great scholars and administrators of Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions). St. Thomas Houston and the University of Dallas are firmly Catholic (although they do have Protestant and Orthodox faculty). Each takes his Christian faith and liberal arts seriously, with a serious core his curriculum that is more than just a set of requirements for taking classes in this department and those in that class. Instead, we have a well-thought-out series of classes that introduce students to Christian and Western traditions through mathematics, hard sciences, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and theology.

In academia where this kind of education is labeled as useless or even racist, these schools show how wrong it can be. George Weigel, whose children went on to the University of Dallas (also known as UD), wrote last fall about the long-standing modern question about whether such a traditional education would lead to career success. . He picked some amazing stats. Among them are: , and in recent years higher than Penn, Johns Hopkins, and USC. In a recent interview, UD President Jonathan Sanford added of the situation: In fact, in our latest “first destination” survey of 2021 graduates, over 99% were employed or highly educated. Like Dallas, Cedarville has his 2021 graduation rate at 98.4% of his, while Hillsdale lists his 98% figure.

What about racism? I don’t have student numbers for this year, but last year’s record-breaking class at the University of St. I was a student. / Latino he is close to 64%. The reality is that all Americans want a good education. Soft prejudices of arousal and low expectations are not considered great education by anyone.

The country has already undermined the Biden administration’s latest disastrous policy that was supposedly meant to boost higher education. Higher education is, of course, heading towards oblivion. It is schools such as Hillsdale College, University of Dallas Cedarville, and St. Thomas the University of Houston that will save higher education by providing a true worldview that takes faith and reason into account. Saving the heart. That’s good in itself. But it also leads to post-college success.

David P. Deavel is an associate professor of theology in Houston, Texas, and a senior contributor to The Imaginative Conservative. Follow him at Gettr @davidpdeavel.

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