The sad thing about higher education is that teaching is not very highly valued.

It would be interesting to know how much money would be saved by the abolition of worthless, indeed positively harmful "studies" programs in every conceivable kind of identity politics. These sham disciplines help no one get a job or make a living - unless it is in the same phony racket. Their ignorant anti-American propaganda poisons the minds of many. They could all be cut and America would be much the better. They are really a kind of malignancy that began in the Sixties as a sop to black students who couldn´t cut the academic mustard at Ivy League schools. Soon, however, other students who were not college material jumped on board and a vast industry -racket- grew up almost overnight. Now we have women´s studies, queer studies, Latino studies, and who knows what else. All are utterly fraudulent as intellectual disciplines. All are a waste of time and money. None ever provided a single student with the skills to earn a living at anything except spreading the same propaganda. My guess is that eliminating them all would save hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars. More importantly, it would clarify reality and desist from deceiving the student victims of these schemes that they are studying and learning something that will help them to make a living.

I took a graduate philosophy class at a large state university last year. The professor clearly was secure in her position and did not care whatsoever about actually teaching anything. Let them panic. I´m afraid that unemployment is what many of them deserve.

There is nothing in this country more overinflated than the egos of teachers and professors. I have spent a lot of time working to improve a local public school system at the middle and high school levels and have found that roughly twenty percent of teachers actually do a good job. The way that most of them scream when standardized testing is mentioned proves that they are afraid of the inevitable results. And yes, I am familiar with all of the lame arguments against it.

In 2004 my wife and I waited in line for several hours to pay respect to President Ronald Reagan lying in state at the Capitol rotunda. The experience was interesting as we spoke with many people who respected this man. One person we spoke to was a professor from the University of Maryland. Upon finding tha he was conservative, we said that we thought he was pretty isolated on the college campus. As far as politics go he said he was, but he wanted to keep conversation open and alive with his fellow liberal professors. He suggested weekly get togethers where they could discuss events and political philosophy. To a person the liberal professors refused. These are not his exact words but the meaning is...The professor said the liberals were happy to spend a couple of hours a week in lectures and play the role of intellectuals rest of the week. They were just flat out lazy.

Perhaps one of the unintended consequences of the sequester will be such revelations to the public such as this article. Also the realization that only in DC is a reduction in the amount of annual spending increase considered a "cut".

Good, it´s time they got their comeupance...

It will get worse with the government dropping the tuition assistance for our military. These liberal professors are now getting schooled on "unintended consequences" .

Having worked for Professors, and been a fly on the wall in academia for a long time, I noted that 20% were actually interested in the position sincerely and performed superbly. 40% were mediocre and confused, 20% were hardly ever seen, having taken an on-the-job retirement, and the remaining 20% were out-and-out grant thieves, petty powermongers, and schemers. It´s amazing what is bought with grant money and kept in their homes, including wardrobes, cars and the contents of catalogs like L.L. Bean. The one who bought the yacht went too far and was caught but disciplined only by being blacklisted from fed money for future grants.