let's help enact Governor Cuomo's proposal for free college in New York!

[basquebromance]

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Awful socialist ideas often reverberate. So what?

 

[Indeependent]

Don't fret, there is a movement by corporate sponsors of US Universities to allow US colleges to accept an unlimited number of foreign students.
More cheap labor at the tax payer's expense.

The H-1B Quagmire: Colleges and Universities Develop Programs to Combat H-1B Gridlock

 

[BluesLegend]

One state I am damn glad I don't live in.

I left in the nineties.... goodbye and good riddance.

I left 14 years ago and took all my money with me, that cost them $130k in income taxes now they get nothing from me haven't paid my fair share since suck it libs

 

[basquebromance]

At these stormy times of instability and confusion – let NY serve as a safe harbor for the progressive principles that made America!

 

[Thunderbird]

Free tuition for public colleges? What an awful idea! It would lead to 1) Continued rising education costs 2) Welfare for the rich 3) Continued bureaucratic waste 4) Destruction of colleges not controlled by the government 5) Complete control of academia by the PC thought police.

 

[WillReadmore]

Don't fret, there is a movement by corporate sponsors of US Universities to allow US colleges to accept an unlimited number of foreign students.
More cheap labor at the tax payer's expense.

The H-1B Quagmire: Colleges and Universities Develop Programs to Combat H-1B Gridlock

No.

Clearly, you've had NOTHING to do with the post-manufacturing world of high tech, information, and innovation where smart college graduates are a requirement.

This IS the arena where we are competing with other nations as automation and rapidly advancing international competitors are solving the manufacturing problem while hiring fewer and fewer humans.

In this world, the required natural resource is brains. And, we only have 5% of the world's brains.

Demanding that we limit the one absolutely required natural resource is the most stupid thing we could POSSIBLY do.

With every other natural resource we require, we work to develop that resource locally and we work to import that resource from wherever we can find it.

Shooting ourselves in the brains is EXACTLY how to ensure we lose.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

If New York makes public colleges and universities tuition-free, mark my words, state after state will follow.

Nah. New York will find that they can't afford it.

Vermont tried universal health care. It was supposed to start dominoes falling. What really happened was the state could not afford it and the whole thing was scrapped.

 

[Nosmo King]

God damn but Conservatives loathe smarts!

 

[Indeependent]

Don't fret, there is a movement by corporate sponsors of US Universities to allow US colleges to accept an unlimited number of foreign students.
More cheap labor at the tax payer's expense.

The H-1B Quagmire: Colleges and Universities Develop Programs to Combat H-1B Gridlock

No.

Clearly, you've had NOTHING to do with the post-manufacturing world of high tech, information, and innovation where smart college graduates are a requirement.

This IS the arena where we are competing with other nations as automation and rapidly advancing international competitors are solving the manufacturing problem while hiring fewer and fewer humans.

In this world, the required natural resource is brains. And, we only have 5% of the world's brains.

Demanding that we limit the one absolutely required natural resource is the most stupid thing we could POSSIBLY do.

With every other natural resource we require, we work to develop that resource locally and we work to import that resource from wherever we can find it.

Shooting ourselves in the brains is EXACTLY how to ensure we lose.

99% of our Business Visas come from India.
If they were such geniuses, they would develop their own country.

 

[Thunderbird]

Don't fret, there is a movement by corporate sponsors of US Universities to allow US colleges to accept an unlimited number of foreign students.
More cheap labor at the tax payer's expense.

The H-1B Quagmire: Colleges and Universities Develop Programs to Combat H-1B Gridlock

No.

Clearly, you've had NOTHING to do with the post-manufacturing world of high tech, information, and innovation where smart college graduates are a requirement.

Support students who have the ability and desire to excel in science and engineering - but don't prop up the inefficient, ludicrous, wasteful, politically correct university system.

 

[Kondor3]

let's help enact Governor Cuomo's proposal for free college in New York!

Why?

There are plenty of Bachelor's and Master's degrees flippin' burgers at MickeyDees already.

No need to run-up the public debt to make more.

 

[Kondor3]

a young physician who had recently graduated medical school from Louisiana had a student debt of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

how dare anyone defend such a system that robs the youth out of our youth?

Blame LibTard Academia for milking the Working Class just because they want to give their kids a better life.

And, now that Public Attention is focused upon these conniving, greedy LibTard Institutions and their arbitrary rate-hikes and waste and bureaucracy and overhead...

They want to shift the burden onto the backs of Working Class taxpaying folk, to saturate the marketplace with bargain-basement degrees, and get them off the hook...

If the LibTards of New York State are dumb enough to fall for that shit, have at it...

When that fails - and it will, after they bankrupt themselves chasing after this insane, Loony Leftist concept...

Sensible people can take-over that State system, analyze costs, and set sensible caps and limits on tuition, books, materials, room and board, and the rest...

Oh, how the Liberal Elites will rant and rave and gnash their teeth and foam at the mouth, if oversight of the schools is wrenched from their hands...

And entrusted to people who understand purpose and fairness and balance and common sense and supply and demand and financial responsibility and accountability and outcomes-based performance and merit evaluation.

Time to begin holding Academia's feet to the fire, and jettison the Old Guard and its disasterous style of operational college-university management.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Don't fret, there is a movement by corporate sponsors of US Universities to allow US colleges to accept an unlimited number of foreign students.
More cheap labor at the tax payer's expense.

The H-1B Quagmire: Colleges and Universities Develop Programs to Combat H-1B Gridlock

No.

Clearly, you've had NOTHING to do with the post-manufacturing world of high tech, information, and innovation where smart college graduates are a requirement.

Support students who have the ability and desire to excel in science and engineering - but don't prop up the inefficient, ludicrous, wasteful, politically correct university system.

And how do you support students without supporting their schools?

 

[Thunderbird]

Don't fret, there is a movement by corporate sponsors of US Universities to allow US colleges to accept an unlimited number of foreign students.
More cheap labor at the tax payer's expense.

The H-1B Quagmire: Colleges and Universities Develop Programs to Combat H-1B Gridlock

No.

Clearly, you've had NOTHING to do with the post-manufacturing world of high tech, information, and innovation where smart college graduates are a requirement.

Support students who have the ability and desire to excel in science and engineering - but don't prop up the inefficient, ludicrous, wasteful, politically correct university system.

And how do you support students without supporting their schools?

We could offer scholarships to students who excel in science and engineering while refusing to fund the administrative bloat and politically correct preening often found at universities.

Is this sort of thing enhancing our GNP:

Temper tantrums from the over-privileged


Or this: Deans List: Hiring Spree Fattens College Bureaucracy—And Tuition

Or this: Top 10 Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses | Human Events

Let's focus our resources in a reasonable manner.

 

[Kondor3]

...We could offer scholarships to students who excel in science and engineering while refusing to fund the administrative bloat and politically correct preening often found at universities. Is this sort of thing enhancing our GNP?...

Life is more than the GNP.

Pursuit of the Arts on the university level is also a worthwhile ambition, however...

For every artist of one kind or another, we need a hundred graduates with 'practical' skills (the sciences, business, administration, etc.)...

There IS some demonstrable need to begin scaling-back (not eliminating) the Arts at the university level in favor of practical skills...

Trouble is, Conservatives would rather turn a blow-torch on anything not practical, and crank-out nothing but business and research drones...

There's got to be a Middle Ground in this sort of thing...

 

[Thunderbird]

Life is more than the GNP.

Pursuit of the Arts on the university level is also a worthwhile ambition, however...

There's nothing wrong per se with the liberal arts: history, philosophy, literature, etc. - but many liberal arts departments have been captured by intolerant leftist fanatics and postmodern lunatics. I don't want to abolish their anti-intellectual antics, but I don't think the government should be funding said antics.

The perversions of M. Foucault

Blog: The latest academic madness unveiled: Gender Reparations

 

[WillReadmore]

Don't fret, there is a movement by corporate sponsors of US Universities to allow US colleges to accept an unlimited number of foreign students.
More cheap labor at the tax payer's expense.

The H-1B Quagmire: Colleges and Universities Develop Programs to Combat H-1B Gridlock

No.

Clearly, you've had NOTHING to do with the post-manufacturing world of high tech, information, and innovation where smart college graduates are a requirement.

This IS the arena where we are competing with other nations as automation and rapidly advancing international competitors are solving the manufacturing problem while hiring fewer and fewer humans.

In this world, the required natural resource is brains. And, we only have 5% of the world's brains.

Demanding that we limit the one absolutely required natural resource is the most stupid thing we could POSSIBLY do.

With every other natural resource we require, we work to develop that resource locally and we work to import that resource from wherever we can find it.

Shooting ourselves in the brains is EXACTLY how to ensure we lose.

99% of our Business Visas come from India.
If they were such geniuses, they would develop their own country.

I don't know what you're trying to say here.

 

[WillReadmore]

Don't fret, there is a movement by corporate sponsors of US Universities to allow US colleges to accept an unlimited number of foreign students.
More cheap labor at the tax payer's expense.

The H-1B Quagmire: Colleges and Universities Develop Programs to Combat H-1B Gridlock

No.

Clearly, you've had NOTHING to do with the post-manufacturing world of high tech, information, and innovation where smart college graduates are a requirement.

Support students who have the ability and desire to excel in science and engineering - but don't prop up the inefficient, ludicrous, wasteful, politically correct university system.

I certainly agree with the first part of that.

However, failing to support our universities IS failing to support students who have the ability and the desire to excel.

 

[WillReadmore]

Life is more than the GNP.

Pursuit of the Arts on the university level is also a worthwhile ambition, however...

There's nothing wrong per se with the liberal arts: history, philosophy, literature, etc. - but many liberal arts departments have been captured by intolerant leftist fanatics and postmodern lunatics. I don't want to abolish their anti-intellectual antics, but I don't think the government should be funding said antics.

The perversions of M. Foucault

Blog: The latest academic madness unveiled: Gender Reparations

This is not a representation of what is actually going on.

Many US universities are getting significantly more applications from women than from men. There are hurdles related to gender in education, but you are going out of your way to find nonsense.

And, focusing on one piece of writing on one subject shows absolutely nothing.

Also, you're totally missing what is meant by a liberal arts education. Maybe you are actually opposed to the humanities. And that, too, would be a big mistake.