{"id":2233623,"date":"2024-04-30T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smash-the-state-backed-higher-education-racket\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T17:00:54","slug":"smash-the-state-backed-higher-education-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smash-the-state-backed-higher-education-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge the Government-Funded College System!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsmash-the-state-backed-higher-education-racket%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2233623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Mohamed Abdou, a pro-Hamas activist-scholar\u200b at Columbia \u200dUniversity, and \u2063the implications of government-backed student loans in higher education. It questions \u200dthe system&#8217;s role in creating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-film-director-cant-forget-familys-escape-from-castros-cuba\/\" title=\"Hollywood Film Director Can\u2019t Forget Family\u2019s Escape from Castro\u2019s Cuba\">debt-ridden<\/a> students and calls for\u200c accountability in educational \u2062funding. Additionally, it critiques proposed loan forgiveness policies and advocates for practical, career-focused education outcomes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Mohamed Abdou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/campus-watch\/65838\/professor-was-hired-to-teach-at-columbia-despite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is<\/a> a pro-Hamas \u201canarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization\u201d at Columbia University. Now, I don\u2019t mean to pick on Abdou, it\u2019s just that he happens to teach virtually every trendy pseudo-intellectual identarian twaddle concocted by modern man.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, we make Abdou\u2019s job possible. Nearly every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">student loan<\/a> taken in the U.S. is either given by the government or fully guaranteed by taxpayers. This sounds wonderful in the abstract, since it allows every student a chance at higher education. The reality, however, is that we have incentivized universities to create hordes of debt-ridden, credentialed nitwits. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1965110310\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f21966518eb9637c229b7a3fc8547638 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f21966518eb9637c229b7a3fc8547638\"><\/div>\n<p>I assure you no bank in the world would ever lend any young person tens of thousands of dollars \u2014 much less hundreds of thousands \u2014 to pursue studies in either indigenous, black, critical race, Islamic, gender, sexuality, abolition, <em>or<\/em> decolonization studies if those loans were not backed by the federal government. The state-guarantee policy has created a massive moral hazard that allows schools not only to ignore the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">real-world<\/a> needs of their students but to charge astronomical tuition rates.<\/p>\n<p>Many, if not most, students still pursue degrees in fields that have promise. They\u2019ll get loans. But if Ivy League schools believe that those political science and journalism degrees are going to pay off in careers, then <em>they<\/em> should cosign on the loans instead of taxpayers. If Columbia wants an anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar on staff, <em>it<\/em> should be funded by school endowments (a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finance.columbia.edu\/content\/imc-ceo-statement-fy23-endowment-returns#:~:text=The%20total%20value%20of%20Columbia's,%2Dyear%20return%20is%208.0%25.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$13 billion<\/a> hedge fund that should taxed) or through charitable donations provided by the Soros Foundation to End Western Civilization, or whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that universities are not meant to be wholly utilitarian institutions. We need well-rounded, intellectually engaged citizens. Does anyone believe that\u2019s happening? There\u2019s nothing wrong with studying art or culture or philosophy. There is nothing wrong with earning a liberal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-says-she-represents-as-many-people-as-manchin-not-even-close\/\" title=\"AOC Says She Represents As Many People As Manchin. Not Even Close.\">arts degree<\/a>. The student-loan racket game, however, solidified silos of extremism and buffoonery, with decades of compounding radicalism and DEI racism smothering genuine intellectual diversity. Every discipline is infected. <\/p>\n<p>Now Democrats want to go from backing this racket to decreeing that taxpayers should just pay off all these bad choices, creating even greater moral hazard. You can inject all the class-war emotions you like into this debate, but the rules of economics are clear. Bailouts disincentivize schools from acting responsibly and incentivize some students to keep chasing degrees that will do them very little good.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b7a6f292c3475837bfc0d9f57e2c017a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b7a6f292c3475837bfc0d9f57e2c017a\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of credential nitwits, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both international relations and economics, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAOC\/status\/1778420938289057937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> that one of the many things loan \u201cforgiveness\u201d would do is allow people to \u201cgo back to school.\u201d The rate of first-time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbo-fraction-of-covid-relief-will-be-spent-on-schools-in-2021-despite-bidens-funding-demands-for-in-person-learning\/\" title=\"CBO: Fraction Of COVID Relief Will Be Spent On Schools In 2021 Despite Biden\u2019s Funding Demands For In-Person Learning\">full-time students<\/a> at four-year institutions who graduate from the school they started at within six years <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/fastfacts\/display.asp?id=40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stands at<\/a> 64 percent. We need people out of school, finishing degrees that allow them to work and pay back their loans, not going back to school.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the United States is such a hellhole of capitalist imperialism that 13,838 students out of 36,649 at Columbia University <a href=\"https:\/\/isso.columbia.edu\/content\/statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are here on foreign visas<\/a>. (I planned on arguing that this policy was unfair to high-achieving American students, until I realized that 13,838 Americans have been spared Columbia.) Schools love foreign students because they are wealthy and pay in cash. And that\u2019s fine. Most of those kids are probably serious students in business and STEM programs.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the U.S. government has zero constitutional duty to keep active visas for foreigners who agitate against the system, celebrate Hamas, or target American Jews (or anyone else) on campuses. We should be pulling visas for anyone suspended for ignoring university rules, breaking laws, invading buildings, or stopping other kids from attending class. Go to school in your excellent home country, instead.<\/p>\n<p>Universities have always been hotbeds of radicalism. That\u2019s fine. Those are the years to act like an imbecile. But extremism is longer on the margins. These days our once-respected institutions are increasingly producing little totalitarians, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=women+doesn%27t+know+why+she+is+protesting&#038;oq=women+doesn%27t+know+why+she+is+protesting&#038;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEINDU1NWowajmoAgCwAgE&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clueless<\/a> fellow travelers, who end up populating important real-world institutions. Society would be better served lighting up a giant cash bonfire than subsidizing this corrosive trend. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b1fa0f009d21d9765752a2ab2081c06b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b1fa0f009d21d9765752a2ab2081c06b\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ca5bcb1cdc19600ddbad1deab46628fb fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ca5bcb1cdc19600ddbad1deab46628fb\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Abdou, a pro-Hamas activist-scholar at Columbia University, teaches a wide range of trendy ideologies on Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies. His teachings span gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization topics. While not targeting Abdou personally, his diverse curriculum raises questions about the spread of modern identity-driven philosophies in academia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2233624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Columbia-1-1024x633.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Columbia-1-1024x633.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}