Bruh, I hear ya. I had to navigate a Ph.D. program recently, and it was an increasing challenge to find any courses which didn't have an agenda; the courses which should be electives are now the primary programs, and the courses which should constitute the primary programs are practically non-existent. And this rapid decline WAS a rapid shift---happened within about a half-dozen years. I woke up one day, and all of a sudden, the campus hallways were filled with kool-aid hair land whales with multiple piercings and tattoos., and skinny jean, noodle-armed soyboys with lattes and scarves; the school began a gender studies program, with an emphasis on LGBT studies, and within ONE year, they crawled out of the woodwork and were drawn to the campus in droves. And this is in TEXAS, by which I do not mean liberal flaky Austin. We live in a country which was founded on the ideas and ideals of Western Civilization, and every person needs to study the foundations of his or her own country before delving into the tangential stuff. Not any more---we live in the age of every student gets a gold sticker or diploma, if they are in the humanities or social sciences. Trust me, I know. All of my graduate degrees are in the humanities, and the math and science departments would not pass or put up with the absolute crap being pushed in my disciplines. So I have worked to finally earn a degree for a job I no longer want---the students have changed, the curriculum has changed, and the administration and faculty peers have changed within a decade. And, yes, I have the student loan debt to show for it and not a job, because I refuse to renounce either my conservative patriotism or my Christianity, both of which are VERY unwelcome these days in my fields. Maybe I will launch a show when Gab TV is a thing---the tales I could tell, Pedes!
Yeah it's painful to see. My goal is to become a prof at my former community college. It wasn't that leftist when I went a couple of years ago. My econ prof introduced the students to Thomas Sowell and my poli sci prof was a dem with a Republican wife. I had a cozier time there than at the four-year with all its commie teachers and I'd like to go back. I hope to teach classes on American history and Western civ to give people a real appreciation of our country and its history. Also want to ensure people actually know the Founding ideals. Luckily, to be a professor of history at my community college, you only need a masters. You might want to search up community college or journalism jobs. Also, conservative academics really need organize community members and push for change at academia. Don't know how, but it's gotta happen. The state legislators are the ones who have the power in the education field I believe. We should be pressing them for reform.
Start now by collecting old school books, especially US history. I have a modest collection gathered from yard sales, ABE Books, etc. It can be an eye opener to read what students studied many years ago.
Oh, bruh, if you only knew! I taught as an adjunct for years at a community college here in Texas, and also for a Christian university, which, BTW, fired an actual Lutheran pastor teaching religion courses for it, all because some self-righteous cunt complained since she had a queer brother and the professor wouldn't back down from the Lutheran biblical position on homosexuality---and it was a Lutheran school! I have two master's degrees and a Ph.D., and a graduate certificate in Instructional Design, and I cannot even get hired as an adjunct these days, despite having top performance reviews from my former administrators and rave student reviews. Once a liberal gets hired as an administrator, they bring in only other libtards and squeeze out and make work miserable for Christians and conservatives, and God help you if you are both, as am I! (I was brought onboard to develop the pilot program of the humanities courses at my local community college, and they gave the full-time positions to photo-op diversity hires (I am Caucasian), neither of whom were qualified to teach courses they assumed, per accreditation mandates.
But what they were was a black female and self-identifying part Native American bisexual, so, you know, the thing. I wouldn't have minded about that if they were better candidates, except I had twice the education they did (even without my Ph.D.), built the program enrollment up from scratch, and was the ONLY candidate qualified to assume the course work per accreditation mandates. I had a student from a local university take one of my humanities courses for his final course to complete his social work degree---he was an adult, my age (42). He told me that I was the ONLY conservative teacher he had for his ENTIRE degree program (and that was at a Methodist university!), so if he had not chanced to have me, he would have made it through his entire college education without having a SINGLE conservative professor. Another semester, I shared with my students during the orientation class that I am a Christian, and one of the students--age 19--well, her jaw nearly dropped, and she told me after class that she was shocked to hear any teacher admit as much these days...in Texas, no less, which is Baptist country!
I remember showing my students studies which showed that college professors in the humanities and social sciences (nobody asks or cares in the STEM disciplines) were liberals by overwhelming numbers----one showing that they dominated those disciplines by as much as 95% (20:1 ratio), meaning only 5% were conservatives, thus explaining why they could expect a high likelihood of graduating without ever having a conservative professor. (I was trying to get them to appreciate having me, LOL.) When you consider that many people in academia get jobs based on connections, I cut that 5% in half, to 2.5 %. Then I reduce it by another 1% since it is reasonable to suggest that there is at least 1% of hiring admins which might not like a person for age, race, weight, gender, personality, etc., that drops even more the odds to get hired. So, in a nutshell, I devoted years and years of my life and accumulated a ginormous student loan debt and did a shit ton of work and spent time and energy on research and writing to have maybe a 1.5% chance of getting hired. And you know what? I love teaching, so it would be worth it if I could get hired to teach content, not an bullshit Leftist agenda...
Damn, that's harsh stuff. Sorry you had to go through all that. Well, I've just received a BA and have skills in absolutely no other fields, so I don't see where else I can turn other than academia. Here's to hoping that we both succeed in the long-run and find a fulfilling career. Perhaps something else will pop up. The military might be the last resort haha.
Ha! I was enlisted at age 17, during the Reagan years. I would NOT want to serve under the Xiden administration. But I hear ya. When students asked me why I was a humanities teacher, I usually told them that I sucked at everything else so I had to go that route if I wanted to be a productive member of society instead of a welfare queen. Besides, if you get a gig teaching what you love, it is the best job in the world, right? Summers off, paid holidays, no heavy lifting, and you get paid to talk and tell people they're wrong---how is that not a dream job? Good luck, dude. MAGA Pedes aren't quitters, we're innovators and persevere. If you are comfortable speaking to crowds, you'll do fine as a teacher, so long as you know your shit. Heck, maybe you can even have a regular bit on my future GAB TV show to pay off my loans, LOL...
P.S. Don't know what your state or area of interest is, but UNT--University of North Texas (NOT my alma mater) -- has a master's degree in military history, which is largely free of the Leftie agenda, mostly because the campus has a high military veteran student population, and work with their veterans.
Consider yourself fortunate that you cut bait when you did. Academia is an absolute cesspool nowadays. Even many of the self-identifying Christian universities are radically apostate now. We live in an age which prizes utility and profitability, and the humanities (which, of course, includes history, art, literature, film, music, dance, philosophy) have been shit-canned and kicked to the curb---dystopia is guaranteed to follow. Every society which is dystopian in film or art or literature is one in which the humanities have been discarded or deprived. They humanize us, and stress our common humanity. No one wants to live in a world without humanities, but this generation will find out too late how they erred in devaluing a liberal arts education by flooding it with garbage ideology and nonsense. You cannot live in a world of merely STEM and profits. Amazon and Google advertise their products by showcasing the humanities; a guy uses a Kindle to put his daughter to sleep, and he is reading Shakespeare to her, not a technical manual. Go out with friends and talk shop only? Or is the quality of your free time devoted to watching films or TV shows, listening to music or watching videos, playing games, going to the theater, ballet, concert? Yeah, all those things are thanks to humanities majors. The sciences (tech and medicine) make life POSSIBLE, but the humanities make life WORTHWHILE. Good job, dummies. Maximizing the development of one branch while depriving the other is like going to the gym and only working on arms and never legs; your legs will atrophy and you'll get top heavy and topple like a freak...
Homeschool yourself on history and get an engineering degree.
They need to start teaching only one subject in those universities. "party doctrine"
Bruh, I hear ya. I had to navigate a Ph.D. program recently, and it was an increasing challenge to find any courses which didn't have an agenda; the courses which should be electives are now the primary programs, and the courses which should constitute the primary programs are practically non-existent. And this rapid decline WAS a rapid shift---happened within about a half-dozen years. I woke up one day, and all of a sudden, the campus hallways were filled with kool-aid hair land whales with multiple piercings and tattoos., and skinny jean, noodle-armed soyboys with lattes and scarves; the school began a gender studies program, with an emphasis on LGBT studies, and within ONE year, they crawled out of the woodwork and were drawn to the campus in droves. And this is in TEXAS, by which I do not mean liberal flaky Austin. We live in a country which was founded on the ideas and ideals of Western Civilization, and every person needs to study the foundations of his or her own country before delving into the tangential stuff. Not any more---we live in the age of every student gets a gold sticker or diploma, if they are in the humanities or social sciences. Trust me, I know. All of my graduate degrees are in the humanities, and the math and science departments would not pass or put up with the absolute crap being pushed in my disciplines. So I have worked to finally earn a degree for a job I no longer want---the students have changed, the curriculum has changed, and the administration and faculty peers have changed within a decade. And, yes, I have the student loan debt to show for it and not a job, because I refuse to renounce either my conservative patriotism or my Christianity, both of which are VERY unwelcome these days in my fields. Maybe I will launch a show when Gab TV is a thing---the tales I could tell, Pedes!
Yeah it's painful to see. My goal is to become a prof at my former community college. It wasn't that leftist when I went a couple of years ago. My econ prof introduced the students to Thomas Sowell and my poli sci prof was a dem with a Republican wife. I had a cozier time there than at the four-year with all its commie teachers and I'd like to go back. I hope to teach classes on American history and Western civ to give people a real appreciation of our country and its history. Also want to ensure people actually know the Founding ideals. Luckily, to be a professor of history at my community college, you only need a masters. You might want to search up community college or journalism jobs. Also, conservative academics really need organize community members and push for change at academia. Don't know how, but it's gotta happen. The state legislators are the ones who have the power in the education field I believe. We should be pressing them for reform.
Start now by collecting old school books, especially US history. I have a modest collection gathered from yard sales, ABE Books, etc. It can be an eye opener to read what students studied many years ago.
Oh, bruh, if you only knew! I taught as an adjunct for years at a community college here in Texas, and also for a Christian university, which, BTW, fired an actual Lutheran pastor teaching religion courses for it, all because some self-righteous cunt complained since she had a queer brother and the professor wouldn't back down from the Lutheran biblical position on homosexuality---and it was a Lutheran school! I have two master's degrees and a Ph.D., and a graduate certificate in Instructional Design, and I cannot even get hired as an adjunct these days, despite having top performance reviews from my former administrators and rave student reviews. Once a liberal gets hired as an administrator, they bring in only other libtards and squeeze out and make work miserable for Christians and conservatives, and God help you if you are both, as am I! (I was brought onboard to develop the pilot program of the humanities courses at my local community college, and they gave the full-time positions to photo-op diversity hires (I am Caucasian), neither of whom were qualified to teach courses they assumed, per accreditation mandates.
But what they were was a black female and self-identifying part Native American bisexual, so, you know, the thing. I wouldn't have minded about that if they were better candidates, except I had twice the education they did (even without my Ph.D.), built the program enrollment up from scratch, and was the ONLY candidate qualified to assume the course work per accreditation mandates. I had a student from a local university take one of my humanities courses for his final course to complete his social work degree---he was an adult, my age (42). He told me that I was the ONLY conservative teacher he had for his ENTIRE degree program (and that was at a Methodist university!), so if he had not chanced to have me, he would have made it through his entire college education without having a SINGLE conservative professor. Another semester, I shared with my students during the orientation class that I am a Christian, and one of the students--age 19--well, her jaw nearly dropped, and she told me after class that she was shocked to hear any teacher admit as much these days...in Texas, no less, which is Baptist country!
I remember showing my students studies which showed that college professors in the humanities and social sciences (nobody asks or cares in the STEM disciplines) were liberals by overwhelming numbers----one showing that they dominated those disciplines by as much as 95% (20:1 ratio), meaning only 5% were conservatives, thus explaining why they could expect a high likelihood of graduating without ever having a conservative professor. (I was trying to get them to appreciate having me, LOL.) When you consider that many people in academia get jobs based on connections, I cut that 5% in half, to 2.5 %. Then I reduce it by another 1% since it is reasonable to suggest that there is at least 1% of hiring admins which might not like a person for age, race, weight, gender, personality, etc., that drops even more the odds to get hired. So, in a nutshell, I devoted years and years of my life and accumulated a ginormous student loan debt and did a shit ton of work and spent time and energy on research and writing to have maybe a 1.5% chance of getting hired. And you know what? I love teaching, so it would be worth it if I could get hired to teach content, not an bullshit Leftist agenda...
Damn, that's harsh stuff. Sorry you had to go through all that. Well, I've just received a BA and have skills in absolutely no other fields, so I don't see where else I can turn other than academia. Here's to hoping that we both succeed in the long-run and find a fulfilling career. Perhaps something else will pop up. The military might be the last resort haha.
Ha! I was enlisted at age 17, during the Reagan years. I would NOT want to serve under the Xiden administration. But I hear ya. When students asked me why I was a humanities teacher, I usually told them that I sucked at everything else so I had to go that route if I wanted to be a productive member of society instead of a welfare queen. Besides, if you get a gig teaching what you love, it is the best job in the world, right? Summers off, paid holidays, no heavy lifting, and you get paid to talk and tell people they're wrong---how is that not a dream job? Good luck, dude. MAGA Pedes aren't quitters, we're innovators and persevere. If you are comfortable speaking to crowds, you'll do fine as a teacher, so long as you know your shit. Heck, maybe you can even have a regular bit on my future GAB TV show to pay off my loans, LOL...
P.S. Don't know what your state or area of interest is, but UNT--University of North Texas (NOT my alma mater) -- has a master's degree in military history, which is largely free of the Leftie agenda, mostly because the campus has a high military veteran student population, and work with their veterans.
https://history.unt.edu/department/military-history-center
Hillsdale, but you can never be hired in academia, except in a community college maybe.
But you gotta start somewhere.
Consider yourself fortunate that you cut bait when you did. Academia is an absolute cesspool nowadays. Even many of the self-identifying Christian universities are radically apostate now. We live in an age which prizes utility and profitability, and the humanities (which, of course, includes history, art, literature, film, music, dance, philosophy) have been shit-canned and kicked to the curb---dystopia is guaranteed to follow. Every society which is dystopian in film or art or literature is one in which the humanities have been discarded or deprived. They humanize us, and stress our common humanity. No one wants to live in a world without humanities, but this generation will find out too late how they erred in devaluing a liberal arts education by flooding it with garbage ideology and nonsense. You cannot live in a world of merely STEM and profits. Amazon and Google advertise their products by showcasing the humanities; a guy uses a Kindle to put his daughter to sleep, and he is reading Shakespeare to her, not a technical manual. Go out with friends and talk shop only? Or is the quality of your free time devoted to watching films or TV shows, listening to music or watching videos, playing games, going to the theater, ballet, concert? Yeah, all those things are thanks to humanities majors. The sciences (tech and medicine) make life POSSIBLE, but the humanities make life WORTHWHILE. Good job, dummies. Maximizing the development of one branch while depriving the other is like going to the gym and only working on arms and never legs; your legs will atrophy and you'll get top heavy and topple like a freak...