Watching the academy gut itself
Most of us have seen a person gut a fish, but have you seen a fish gut herself? Probably not. But sometimes that’s what it feels like watching the academy in the last decades.
The cost of tuition has gone up drastically. Basically, we have academic institutions that put a premium price tag on education. In fact, it’s a price tag that has gone up 1,200 percent in 30 years, leaving many graduates in extreme debt, and causing others to drop out before their education is completed.
The value of education has plummeted. The odd thing is that when a person takes full advantage of the educational system in this country, when they put their time, energy, and creativity into earning a Ph.D., then the very same universities that have been trying to convince us that education is worth that much inflation, turns around and tells the Ph.D.s that their hard work is worth about . . . 1-3K per class for an adjunct teaching position. So the value of education is being cut dramatically by the very same people who are trying to inflate the cost of education.
