DIEing Confidence in the Academy
DIEing Confidence in the Academy Academia has ruined its reputation, students are starting to stay away in droves, and I couldn't be happier. JOHN CARTER For many years now, we’ve been watching the infestation of lacklustre mediocrities chewing through the universities like an army of termites eating the accrued reputation of centuries of scientific advancement and shitting out Debt, Indoctrination, and Enmity (which are the real goals of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity). It looks like the house the termites ate might finally be starting to wobble. In a recent Gallup poll it was revealed that American’s confidence in higher education has dropped off a cliff in just the last few years: Rapid decline in confidence in higher ed In the long-ago before times of 2015 fully 57% of Americans had either ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in country’s institutions of higher learning, while only 9% said they had ‘very little’ confidence. A mere eight years later and that confide