The corruption of higher education has sent waves throughout all American education, and thus, all of American society.
Here is how those waves have traveled and washed away much of what used to be the broad based educational foundations of our economy, our politics, and our society.
● These waves start with a poor undergraduate education (except for a very small group of students).
● The waves are prepared for amplification when a large group of PhD’s are essentially fraudulently awarded. (No, I don’t mean “substandard” or, not up to “my standards”. I really do mean “fraudulent”, as you will see as you read on.)
● The granting of these PhD’s amplify the waves because many recipients of these (faux) PhD’s become “professors” at schools where large numbers of Americans go for a degree. (Some of these PhD’s do stay at their original schools, or schools like them. There they become poorly paid adjuncts who do the work of making students happy. That way their professors don’t have to worry themselves with that task.)
● At the schools where these inadequately trained “professors” go to teach, they face pressures to keep students happy. That is when the waves become tsunamis because the schools where these professors “teach” are the very same schools that our society count on to educate our k-12 teachers, the people upon which our whole educational system rests.
● Finally, the waves, in the form of these teachers, wash up on the shores of our society because of poor K-12 (especially high school) education.
My hope is for this blog to shine a light on how that corruption comes about. Here you will read examples that illustrate how and why each of the steps above come about.
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