Watching the prestige of America’s “elite” liberal arts universities evaporate faster than a Bud Light spilled on hot asphalt warms the cockles of the Beaver’s heart.
Can MIT dodge this bitter fate?
The world’s leading STEM university once stood aloof from postmodern peddlers of intellectual putrefaction. After their long march through the institutions captured America’s educational machinery, many thought MIT might yet be spared. After all, calculus is to Foucault what garlic is to vampires.
Morally adrift youngsters, indoctrinated since elementary school, are selectively curated by woke admissions officers looking to build the right kind of “team.” Once on campus they are shorn of critical thinking skills then programmed into slogan spewing activist-automatons. The sad result is mobs of them running amok glorifying misogynist terrorists.
What parents in their right mind want to subject their kids to this nihilist regimen? And which sane employers want their companies turned upside down by pampered rampaging pinheads?
“Elite” liberal arts universities will get what’s coming to them. But can Poison Ivy Stench be kept off MIT?
MIT did not achieve its renown in the liberal arts. It traditionally served students a minimal diet of humanities in between problem sets, just to round them out. Academic snobs rightly considered MIT to be the world’s finest STEM vocational school.
As young Americans figure out that a gender studies degree stapled to a $100,000 student loan is the worst education deal ever offered, and ever more head instead to trade schools, MIT should make a bee-line back its roots.
How? Spineless Sally Kornbluth needs to excise those portions of MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Socialist Scientism infected by the Woke-Mind-Virus. Then shut down the destructive DEI programs, close the activist training camps, return MIT to strict merit based admissions, and double down on the core math and science curriculum.
Quietly banning DEI statements in faculty hiring was a good start, a little-noticed policy reform the administration was too timid to publicly announce. But with barbarians inside the gates, it’s time to go to Defcon 1.