Some academics may be surprised, but the University of Illinois, my alma mater, began as the Illinois Industrial University in 1867, where, "Student Life With the downtowns of both Urbana and Champaign nearly a mile from campus, there weren’t many outlets for fun for early students, who had compulsory manual labor and military drill daily or weekly. Even the two original student organizations were geared to improving the minds and skills of students. When women were admitted in 1870, women’s organizations followed suit." https://www.library.illinois.edu/mappinghistory/campus-history/the-early-years/
The problem isn't that there needs to be more Starbucks jobs per se, because that is more wasteful of transportation when driving and of paper cups and sugar packets. There are a lot of things that could be done efficiently and less wasteful, and the cost of employing a Starbucks worker at a living wage, such as $24/hr in a high-rent area isn't going to be desirable for Starbucks nor the person debating learning how to grind, and brew their own coffee from a bag of coffee beans and buying in bulk.
The entire system doesn't value education for the sake of learning and improving microeconomies and consumer education. Not surprisingly, many of Phillip Morris's subsidiaries were processed food companies until the mid-00s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAgn5R3EUnU. The employment requiring salesmanship for profits of unhealthy foods only serve the healthcare, pharmaceutical and insurance industry. The greatest healthcare policy the U.S. could enact is guaranteed housing and post-graduate education for all citizens, who could trade the wish to be the lead-PI on every lab paper for a more collective research economy. The amount of healthcare costs that could be avoided would be credited to preventative healthcare- less of a need to drive far to work (live and work on campus- I didn't get a driver's license until I was 21 for this reason), and less of a need to earn an income to produce knowledge. Students could work for life in jobs like waxing floors, harvesting grain off-campus, repairing and operating tractors, or planting and growing coffee beans (among other essential crops), rather than studying if they really didn't want to. But most university administrators and the technology transfer licensing offices today, see two one way streets-one street for tax payer dollars funding largely private research, that goes to private IP and the other street sending a bill for the rental of services created by the IP https://pluralistic.net/tag/digital-feudalism/. If universities are in essence, training centers for future feudal technocrats, then the university system is a thin veneer for something quite opposite of the ancient monastery.
" The setting is a fictional province of central Europe called Castalia, which was reserved by political decision for the life of the mind; technology and economic life are kept to a strict minimum. Castalia is home to an austere order of intellectuals with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools, and to cultivate and play the Glass Bead Game, whose exact nature remains elusive and whose devotees occupy a special school in Castalia known as Waldzell. The rules of the game are only alluded to—they are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. The game is essentially an abstract synthesis of all arts and sciences. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
" It was begun in 1931 in Switzerland, where it was published in 1943 after being rejected for publication in Germany due to Hesse's anti-Fascist views.[1]" The idea the world makes academia less affordable with commercialization is due to the fact that technology is emphasized for non-research purposes, (e.g. selling excessive packaging like plastic utensils).
Studying fruit flies isn't useless per se, but a lot of it gets buried under biased and omitted research papers, that seeks to discredit or marketize trendy research, and it has been like this since the 80s (White Noise).
I'd like to start an academy for academics who were not successful at reaching tenure. I'd call it The Institute for Academic Rejects. The classes and labs would be no larger than 60 students, each for seconds of a broken analog clock. Because one second the clock's second hand points to would be right at least 1/60th of the time at any given time.
Rock on.
Some academics may be surprised, but the University of Illinois, my alma mater, began as the Illinois Industrial University in 1867, where, "Student Life With the downtowns of both Urbana and Champaign nearly a mile from campus, there weren’t many outlets for fun for early students, who had compulsory manual labor and military drill daily or weekly. Even the two original student organizations were geared to improving the minds and skills of students. When women were admitted in 1870, women’s organizations followed suit." https://www.library.illinois.edu/mappinghistory/campus-history/the-early-years/
The problem isn't that there needs to be more Starbucks jobs per se, because that is more wasteful of transportation when driving and of paper cups and sugar packets. There are a lot of things that could be done efficiently and less wasteful, and the cost of employing a Starbucks worker at a living wage, such as $24/hr in a high-rent area isn't going to be desirable for Starbucks nor the person debating learning how to grind, and brew their own coffee from a bag of coffee beans and buying in bulk.
The entire system doesn't value education for the sake of learning and improving microeconomies and consumer education. Not surprisingly, many of Phillip Morris's subsidiaries were processed food companies until the mid-00s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAgn5R3EUnU. The employment requiring salesmanship for profits of unhealthy foods only serve the healthcare, pharmaceutical and insurance industry. The greatest healthcare policy the U.S. could enact is guaranteed housing and post-graduate education for all citizens, who could trade the wish to be the lead-PI on every lab paper for a more collective research economy. The amount of healthcare costs that could be avoided would be credited to preventative healthcare- less of a need to drive far to work (live and work on campus- I didn't get a driver's license until I was 21 for this reason), and less of a need to earn an income to produce knowledge. Students could work for life in jobs like waxing floors, harvesting grain off-campus, repairing and operating tractors, or planting and growing coffee beans (among other essential crops), rather than studying if they really didn't want to. But most university administrators and the technology transfer licensing offices today, see two one way streets-one street for tax payer dollars funding largely private research, that goes to private IP and the other street sending a bill for the rental of services created by the IP https://pluralistic.net/tag/digital-feudalism/. If universities are in essence, training centers for future feudal technocrats, then the university system is a thin veneer for something quite opposite of the ancient monastery.
" The setting is a fictional province of central Europe called Castalia, which was reserved by political decision for the life of the mind; technology and economic life are kept to a strict minimum. Castalia is home to an austere order of intellectuals with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools, and to cultivate and play the Glass Bead Game, whose exact nature remains elusive and whose devotees occupy a special school in Castalia known as Waldzell. The rules of the game are only alluded to—they are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. The game is essentially an abstract synthesis of all arts and sciences. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
" It was begun in 1931 in Switzerland, where it was published in 1943 after being rejected for publication in Germany due to Hesse's anti-Fascist views.[1]" The idea the world makes academia less affordable with commercialization is due to the fact that technology is emphasized for non-research purposes, (e.g. selling excessive packaging like plastic utensils).
Studying fruit flies isn't useless per se, but a lot of it gets buried under biased and omitted research papers, that seeks to discredit or marketize trendy research, and it has been like this since the 80s (White Noise).
I'd like to start an academy for academics who were not successful at reaching tenure. I'd call it The Institute for Academic Rejects. The classes and labs would be no larger than 60 students, each for seconds of a broken analog clock. Because one second the clock's second hand points to would be right at least 1/60th of the time at any given time.