Notices by Gwladys Pendlebury (gwladyspendlebury@home.social)

@fifilamoura @donaldball @alexwild @inthehands I get that. There’s been a lot of unfair blame and finger pointing. I’m not a younger woman and I was in college administration. I resisted, but as you pointed out patriarchal powers prevailed. The decline of education in so many aspects is heartbreaking and they aren’t done yet.

@fifilamoura @donaldball @alexwild @inthehands True it started in the 80s, hugely due to the The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking. Competing to please employers ushered in an administrative business model, course standardization, took power away from academics in the pursuit of profit. Universities became trade schools and the pursuit of knowledge and higher ed went to pot.

@fifilamoura @donaldball @alexwild @inthehands There’s no question that there was a huge conservative backlash against civil rights and feminism wherein education was a major target. I’m pointing a method which had major ripple effect in not only the decline in liberal arts, humanities and minority studies in higher ed and public schools but also the for profit motives which was the subject of the original post.