Doge and the American University
As we get closer to Elon’s DOGE kicking into gear next year, how will it handle waste at the American University. We are out of the Marxist era of the American University that lasted from 1960-2020. As we enter this new era students and parents expect to receive the education they pay for rather than the indoctrination from Marx, Kinsey, Money, Freire, and Foucault that’s been going on for decades.
How will Doge clean up the budgets of the American Universities? Some of their money is from State taxes, some is from tuition, some is from donations, but a huge chunk comes from the Federal Government.
That money can be significantly reduced to no longe support humanities programs that push Money’s gender theory, Freire’s decolonizing, and Foucault’s relativism. It can be taken away from the proliferation of unneeded administrators and DEI offices?
What about at ASU? The Dean of my college recently updated us about enrollment in our college. On paper it looks good. But that only because we added a new school and are including their numbers. The numbers for the humanities remain abysmal and have no hope for an improvement. I have the emails to show that our college and school have been conspiring to decolonize our curriculum for the last few years.
These degrees are not an efficient use of Federal or State money. They are open about their use of decolonizing and gender theory. Let’s write Elon and bring this to his attention. No more money for programs that have an agenda rooted in these philosophers. That money can be sent back to the tax payers and I believe the useful programs at the State Universities will have more support than ever before.
“No more money for programs that have an agenda rooted in these philosophers.” I’m sure you meant to say “No more money for programs that have an agenda rooted in ONLY these philosophers.” As in, we can teach these philosophers but we need to also teach other philosophers. Right? I didn’t think the goal was to extricate leftist ideology completely but to eradicate the overwhelming bias or propensity for this sort of teaching at ASU. The problem is lack of balance, lack of equal time for diverging viewpoints. Right?
In a free, open, and neutral university we would have access to all points of view. Even the ones we think, know, and believe are total crap. We’re supposed to present it all and teach students how to think for themselves, choose for themselves. Obviously, the problem is that this is not happening. However, switching these supposedly bad ideas with the “right” ones will just put us back in the same position.
Even if DOGE doesn't recommend these cuts, it’s likely that the Secretary of DOE will make these kinds of changes. And to be clear, DOGE is only an advisory committee and has no power to do anything except make recommendations.