By all means, stop giving taxpayer money to institutions of "higher" (pot or coke?) learning. Many, especially those of the poison Ivy, have more money than the Fed. I caution not to expect a rapid turn around, even with the elimination of DEI racism. The professors, at least since the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, have been the former members of the SDS and the Weathermen or their wannabe hippie descendants. It may take quite some time for the smell of cannabis and the stain of Progressivism/Marxism to leave the hallowed halls of the universities.
You must be in some peculiar blue state hellhole to come away with such a negative impression. During 2019 there was a debate on the Notices pf the AMS concerning diversity statements, spearheaded by an editorial against by Dr. Abigail Thompson. There were letters to the editor for and against. The letters against diversity statements were cosigned by the top mathematicians, many of whom with names recognizable to myself from their research. The letters for were signed by younger people unknown to me from teaching-oriented institutions. So, to some extent we are looking at a generational shift which will eventually boomerang. What will help a lot is to stop funding woke nonsense. A lot of people opportunisticly pad their CV with external grants that are not about research but about woke activism, and then use that to enter administrative positions. So my recipe ks two fold: decentralize and increase tenure protections and shared governance and then stop funding bullshit; fund the people doing the real work. Reducing indirects. may also nelp to curb the excess administration that is unrelalated to research.
By all means, stop giving taxpayer money to institutions of "higher" (pot or coke?) learning. Many, especially those of the poison Ivy, have more money than the Fed. I caution not to expect a rapid turn around, even with the elimination of DEI racism. The professors, at least since the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, have been the former members of the SDS and the Weathermen or their wannabe hippie descendants. It may take quite some time for the smell of cannabis and the stain of Progressivism/Marxism to leave the hallowed halls of the universities.
Another wonderful example of a student from our university of "higher learning"...
A Clueless Red Diaper Baby chanting "From the River to the Sea" was asked which river and sea do you mean...
She answered with, "do I look stupid"?
She continued yelling, "It is the Mediterranean and the Nile"!
Yes.... You look really stupid!
You must be in some peculiar blue state hellhole to come away with such a negative impression. During 2019 there was a debate on the Notices pf the AMS concerning diversity statements, spearheaded by an editorial against by Dr. Abigail Thompson. There were letters to the editor for and against. The letters against diversity statements were cosigned by the top mathematicians, many of whom with names recognizable to myself from their research. The letters for were signed by younger people unknown to me from teaching-oriented institutions. So, to some extent we are looking at a generational shift which will eventually boomerang. What will help a lot is to stop funding woke nonsense. A lot of people opportunisticly pad their CV with external grants that are not about research but about woke activism, and then use that to enter administrative positions. So my recipe ks two fold: decentralize and increase tenure protections and shared governance and then stop funding bullshit; fund the people doing the real work. Reducing indirects. may also nelp to curb the excess administration that is unrelalated to research.
Good luck with that desire, Sir.