How Much Lower Can Higher Education Sink?

Indeed they do.

From me, who taught at West Point for three years and college-level journalism at the Defense Information School for two yet was rejected by search committees at 63 college and universities to which I applied for tenure-track teaching positions, I have to agree. As early as the late '80s I realized my having a Ph.D. in hand, my dissertation published and writing chapters and forewords for several books, plus award-winning articles in peer-reviewed journals would count for not because: I was a 40-year-old retired armor major, all of my teaching experience was in army schools, I was an enlisted Vietnam vet with a CIB and Purple Heart, and my major field was military history. It mattered not that I could also teach U.S. diplomatic, political and African American history (the latter my being white was the disqualifier--or so I was told). Bottom line, I was a conservative who didn't work in race, class, progressive, gender or LGBTQ+ studies. So, I quit looking for tenure, did some adjunct teaching and settled on book editing until my disabilities forced me to retire at age 55.

They told us decades ago what their plans were, many just didn't listen and the remaining agreed with them. Those who agreed were failing up while pushing the best educators out.

"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well – by creating the international child of the future" - Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Psychiatrist, address to the Childhood International Education Seminar, 1973

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