Forbes lists UF as a New Ivy

I would agree that it is not a big issue at Engineering Schools. I was very surprised to see the MIT people dragged in to that congressional hearing a few months back.

MIT is still a great school and probably still the best, but there are well over a dozen alternatives of elite engineering schools that have definitely closed that gap over the years.

 

Our oldest son has been with one of The Big investment banks in NYC for a decade, his wife works for another and he has noticed the ivy bias for sure but also that as you rise higher that the bias extends even to prep schools. There is a common track.

 

Some Ivy League schools have fallen because their graduates have a reputation for being radical SJWs….



Maybe the sanity of administrators holding back the tide of insanity has something to do with UF not going to the funny farm with the Ivy League schools.

 

Very, very well said. Concur completely

 

Amend. Also very very well said. We are being so unwise

 

It’s a holdover from this “incident”!

The legacy of Florida State's male homecoming princess

 

Is there a difference? Is political science a mandate on college campuses? And why teach activism unless you're teaching confrontation without debates and using formal channels of dissent.

There's also a much bigger picture that you are ignoring here.

 

There is a HUGE difference. If I have a kid in college that is trying to learn about the political process, then that is amazing. That is totally different than a professor teaching politics (in a non political class).
Do you really not see that distinction?

 

What kinds of jobs do you get with a "protesting" degree? Community organizer? You seem to act like you think all college students need to learn how to protest in college. Why not focus on a STEM subject instead?

 

Do you think being active or knowing politics is earning a "protesting degree". Both my boys are STEM at one of the toughest engineering schools in the country. But they are adventurous and intellectually curious, so they have numerous other interests (working out, martial arts, economics, politics.....). Did you only have interest in your major at college?

 

Ivy kids have influential parents. All a money, power circle

 

I never had the need to protest in college and neither did my son that graduated from The University of Florida.

These kids are not just protesting they are protesting FOR HAMAS... IOW, they are supporting terrorists and terrorism. That is the end of this debate.

 

I am glad you are conceding your nonsense position. What started out with me questioning your blanket statement about politics in schools somehow turned into support for terrorism.
Way to dance around an indefensible statement.

 

One more thing, teaching protesting is like teaching 5 year olds about sex... I does NOT BELONG in curriculum... at any level.