College is Woke 101

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, but first a brand new feature at very proud
of the introduction. Credit to executive producer Mike Hanson for this.
Michael Rowland, would you woke this phrase? Everybody's been woked,
somebody's woke. People need to take it down, you know what?
Woke me? Colleges are Oh, there you go. That's good. Nice,

(00:20):
that's a good production piece right there. Kind of cuts
off abruptly at the end, though, that is your bit
gonna live up to the intro because the intro is
pretty good. M m m hmm. Good question. Let the
audience be the judge. Colleges are woke? One oh one
came across a really interesting article here that will post

(00:41):
an Armstrong and Getty dot com. It's about a number
of different aspects of the college situation right now, universities,
et cetera. One of the things they mentioned is the
the elite universities are doing very, very well. But then
they mentioned that Harvard, Princeton, Stanford Yale collectively enrolled more
students from the top one percent of the income income distribution,

(01:04):
more from the top one percent than from the bottom
six That's always been so hilarious to me as that uh,
that continues to exist, while that's the crowd that tends
to lectures about inequality and equity in all this crush. Yeah, yeah,
the religious kids get into the fanciest college has always been,

(01:26):
always will be. Keeping mind that since nine one, the
price tag for a four year degree has increased it
more than four times the rate of inflation, and will
have one of the factors of that for you. Even
Robert Reich, the lefty former Harvard professor, says, yeah, these uh,
elite universities are mainly quote to educate children of the
wealthy and upper or middle class. Well, yeah, if it's

(01:49):
the one percent, it's the wealthy, um and and it
covers a lot of stuff. Again, I can't touch on
all of it, but I want to jump to this.
A survey taking found that only a third of under
graduates see their education as advancing their career goals, and
barely one in five think they're be a was worth
the cost, barely one in five. Wow. Combination of poor parents,

(02:13):
decreasing rewards to education, distaste among many Americans for academia's
overwhelmingly progressive agenda may further depress college attendants in the future. Uh,
they go into some of the costs, which are indeed
sky high. More troubling still, I like this universities can
get away with obscurantism. I wonder if I could get
away with obscurantism. First, I'd have to figure out what

(02:35):
it is. Obscurantism. Yes, and this one you'll know enforced
ideological conformity. Because of their enormous power over labor markets,
they're no longer primarily about learning, as others have noted,
but about providing the credential needed allegedly for high paying job.
What they increasingly don't teach your skills useful in the workplace.

(02:56):
One recent study of American college students found that more
than one third of student quote did not demonstrate any
significant improvement in learning in four years of college. Player
support that recent graduates are short on critical thinking skills
as well. Now that's amazing. Um. The question of whether
or not college specifically prepared you for your job. Was
it supposed to be that way originally or how many

(03:17):
people was not originally? Like your specifically learning things, they're
gonna help you the job. But the idea that just
in general you haven't learned anything well you're in college
is just amazing. Yeah it is. It's shocking. And you know,
I see college. It depends. I mean, if you're an engineer,
you need to learn engineering. A lot of us obviously.
The point is learn as much as you possibly can

(03:39):
about as many things as you possibly can. The cliche
is to be well rounded. I would suggest a better
description would be to be a good citizen or a
person that can handle a variety of circumstances and bring
some knowledge. But kids aren't learning anything, No, and they
will tell you. So that's the truly shocking part. They
know they need the degree to maybe pursue a career,

(04:03):
but barely one in five say it was worth it. Yeah,
few people are are are are getting skills specific to
their career. And there's the other stuff you said, but
they are getting that either. So wow. But the name
of the feature at his college is woke on on one.
So let's get to some of the woke stuff. You
probably remember this November nine, we talked about this at
great length of the time. Three black Oberlin College students.

(04:26):
It's a super expensive Howiti hoity twity private school in Ohio.
Three black Overland students walked into Gibson's Bakery a small, local,
family owned bakery and convenience store run by the Gibson
family for more than a hundred and thirty years. Also,
I had a long standing affiliation with the college supplied
students with black breakfast fair. The son of the owner

(04:48):
saw one of the students use a fake idea to
purchase alcohol, then shoplift the bottle of wine, followed him
outside confront of them. The other two students began to
hassle him loudly, and a restive lee cops showed up.
All three ended up being arrested. The alteration put in
motion a massive organized student protest with hundreds of people

(05:09):
outside that gathered outside the bakery, students prepared a one
page flyer that accused the bakery of having a history
of racial profiling and discrimination. College administrators joined the students
in handing out the flyer, in whipping up the students,
in communicating with each other about how to make it
more effective, and uh and and there's all sorts behind

(05:30):
the scenes stuff I don't have time to get into,
but you might recall a couple of years ago. It
wasn't long ago that the jury said, yeah, the college,
Joe's Gibson's Bakery, eleven point one million dollars in compensatory
damages and thirty three point two million impunitive damages, not
to mention six point three million and attorney's fees. Well,

(05:53):
juries sometimes get crazy, so the Overland College appealed it
to the Ohio Court of Appeals, which handed down their
long away to decision unanimously saying Oberlin, you are guilty.
You are on the hook, So a little justice there
and finally just gonna run through some numbers for you.

(06:13):
A review of salary data for diversity, equity, equity and
inclusion employees at major universities is unbelievable. They're looking at Michigan, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois,
plus Virginia Tech. These institutions top diversity employees earned salaries
ranging from three hundred and thirty thousand dollars to four
hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year, vastly eclipsing the

(06:35):
average pay for the full time tenured professors. That's hilarious.
So that they can do what what are you doing?
Michigan devoted eighty five million dollars in sixteen to diversity issues.
Over a five year periods reasonable uh fifteen million in

(06:56):
total compensation to d e I bureaucrats. Uh. Let's see. Oh,
I've got a bunch more schools, but we don't have
time to get to it. All of these schools spending
millions and millions of dollars. Incredible, Armstrong and Jetty