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It's unfortunate that criticizing academia in the US has become a right-coded thing, because the state of higher education in this country really is bad. Is there a way that could be turned around? (hexbear.net)

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Question was inspired by this essay: https://whitehotharlots.substack.com/p/the-crisis-of-higher-education-is

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[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 9 points 6 hours ago

This is spot on. I left academia at the end of 2023 and glad I got out when I did. Things are not getting any better it seems. In CA, our "public" universities are totally beholden to capital interests and will do nothing that improves quality of education, quality of lives for their workers, instead spending time "fighting antisemitisim".

It is pretty depressing, because this vital institution is just rotten to the core and needs to be completely rebuilt I fear