There’s a subject in Texas upon which much of the business community, as well as other not usually doing so, team up with big government liberals at almost every turn: Higher education spending.
Reflexively, it seems that almost any suggestion that state colleges and universities could be run more efficiently is attacked as some effort to gut higher education. We hear the same with K through 12 too and, anyone with intellectual honesty knows that such a claim is hogwash.
Efforts to stop prying eyes from exposing waste, abuse and even fraud at the University of Texas, for example, have lead to a statewide demonization of a lone regent, Wallace Hall, who asks too many questions for the comfort of the establishment ruling-class. But there is prima facia evidence that some of what passes as scholarship on our dime, is little more than self-indulgent waste which benefits society very little.
I’ve previously singled out Texas Tech for classes on zombies and vampires and today it’s UT-Austin. Take this lead sentence from a story from the school’s campus newspaper: “Though the existing field of black lesbian literature and analysis is limited, it recently became a little bit bigger with the release of a UT professor’s new publication on black lesbian culture.”
I’m sure that to the statistically insignificant number of black American lesbians, this might be valued but, in reality, is such so-called scholarship truly justifiable on the taxpayers’ dime?
Our society, and even lesbians, could progress just fine without the book “The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution”.
UT’s black lesbian culture study doesn’t merit taxpayer money
There’s a subject in Texas upon which much of the business community, as well as other not usually doing so, team up with big government liberals at almost every turn: Higher education spending.
Reflexively, it seems that almost any suggestion that state colleges and universities could be run more efficiently is attacked as some effort to gut higher education. We hear the same with K through 12 too and, anyone with intellectual honesty knows that such a claim is hogwash.
Efforts to stop prying eyes from exposing waste, abuse and even fraud at the University of Texas, for example, have lead to a statewide demonization of a lone regent, Wallace Hall, who asks too many questions for the comfort of the establishment ruling-class. But there is prima facia evidence that some of what passes as scholarship on our dime, is little more than self-indulgent waste which benefits society very little.
I’ve previously singled out Texas Tech for classes on zombies and vampires and today it’s UT-Austin. Take this lead sentence from a story from the school’s campus newspaper: “Though the existing field of black lesbian literature and analysis is limited, it recently became a little bit bigger with the release of a UT professor’s new publication on black lesbian culture.”
I’m sure that to the statistically insignificant number of black American lesbians, this might be valued but, in reality, is such so-called scholarship truly justifiable on the taxpayers’ dime?
Our society, and even lesbians, could progress just fine without the book “The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution”.