Right Wing Assault on Education is in Full Swing. Learning Doesn't Matter, Just Profit.

[proud2BlibKansan]

The right-wing assault on American education is in full swing.

The Koch brothers are buying up professors to disseminate the gospel of greed in higher education across America. Right-wing funded think tanks, GOP politicians and even the White House are pushing privatized schooling, which means that the educational motive and context will be corporate profit, not the development of inquiry and knowledge.

And among other efforts to undermine the American educational system and replace it with a system that values students for their profitability, we have seen public education spending slashed across the land. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, for instance, "The price of attending California State University could soar to $7,400 next spring - more than twice what it cost just three years ago."

The governor of Michigan is slashing $2 billion from the state's education budget, and the Pennsylvania governor is urging state universities to sell off their land for toxic "fracking" to offset subsidy losses.

A large part of the intellectual capacity, research and innovation that made America a formidable nation of creative ingenuity came from the resources and educational skills developed in public schools and universities - along with nonprofit educational facilities.

When education becomes just another corporate profit center, the loss on the bottom line will be the future of the United States.

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12691

[dynasaw]

1. Corporate model for universities

The corporate model for universities in the California state system was adopted over a decade ago.

Half assed corporate strategies such as "total quality management" (TQM )and the like were shoved onto campuses. Departments became "profit enters" and students were referred to as "clients." It went without saying that other dirty tricks now revealed as being practiced by big corporations and loan institutions were also smuggled into the way campuses were run and are still being pushed by chancellor Charles Reed, the largely Republican Board of Trustees, and the suits who still constitute the top heavy bureaucracy.

What has either education or students got to do with anything? Very little unfortunately.

[dynasaw]

2. Corporate model for universities

The corporate model for universities in the California state system was adopted over a decade ago.

Half assed corporate strategies such as "total quality management" (TQM )and the like were shoved onto campuses. Departments became "profit enters" and students were referred to as "clients." It went without saying that other dirty tricks now revealed as being practiced by big corporations and loan institutions were also smuggled into the way campuses were run and are still being pushed by chancellor Charles Reed, the largely Republican Board of Trustees, and the suits who still constitute the top heavy bureaucracy.

What has either education or students got to do with anything? Very little unfortunately.

[liberal N proud]

3. Moving toward that 1984 model

The corporation will determine what you will become.

[WinkyDink]

4. It is reaching its natural culmination. Perhaps some of you were here at the "innocent" inception?

WHEN WE---the U.S.---AGREED THAT STUDENTS WERE "PRODUCTS."