Destroying the Higher Education Machine
11th October 2024
Why are almost all universities the same? The same general curriculum. The same departmental structure. The same political bent. Universities in Wyoming and Idaho are just as left-wing as universities in Colorado and New York. Private universities look just like public universities. Most Christian universities have dropped their distinctive missions and now look like all the other private universities. University administrators adopt the same Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies everywhere. I could go on.
Universities are almost all the same. But why?
Because the universities are machines. To get hired, Ph.D. disciplines produce Ph.D. holders stamped in the same professional mold. Those Ph.D.s then go out into the country and get hired by universities everywhere.
They build departments and design curriculum based on the same standards. University administrators come out of this assembly line—they move from department chair, to associate dean, to dean, to provost, and then to president. The same kind of general education plan gets put in place at nearly every university. And the same distribution requirements do too: take two English, three science, and three social science classes. Now take an ethics of diversity class.