Ever since the feds began subsidizing higher education in the 1960s, it has gone from generally high quality at an affordable cost to often dubious quality at a high cost. The gusher of money has lured in lots of grifters, peddling academic dreck that hits the right ideological notes.
It also attracts grifters of a different kind, those who offer questionable education to Americans who have been turned off by the blatant politicization of so many of our traditional colleges and universities. In today’s Martin Center article, John Mac Ghlionn takes a look at this development:
It’s important to note that one of the reasons these “universities” appear to be so popular is that traditional universities have failed. Well-established places of higher learning have become breeding grounds for antipathy towards men, especially white men, otherwise known as “colonialists.” They have poured, and continue to pour, inordinate amounts of gasoline on the crisis of masculinity sweeping the Western world.
Young men turned off from enrolling in college but who still want a degree of some kind need to be cautious. Some of the alternatives are pretty sketchy.
Read the whole thing.