What are the biggest problems in modern academia, and how would you fix them, anon?
>>16848141Extreme political bias.Strip accreditation from all of the current institutions, without exception, and start over with new people.
>>16848141University should be free. The number of international students should be limited to something like 10%. Reduce theoretical research in hard sciences considerably, for now, and increase experimental research. Phd students should not be forced to teach, they often really suck at it and put in the bare minimum effort which affects the students experience, there are alternatives. Degrees should be more focused instead of teaching a wide range of random shit like it's high school. Work experience should should start in first year so students get to find out if they actually want to do that job full time instead of having to wait years to find out they don't even like the job they're studying for.
>>16848141With billions of dollars of funding every year in the sciences the complete absence of penis enlargement solutions
>>16848141so much slop masquerading as science
The increasing number of people who really aren't cut out for college, but insist on applying anyways, demand admittance, then promptly crash, burn, and drop out and then run around on the internet afterwards yelling about how higher education is biased and rigged against people like them and needs to be shut down.
>>16848141>biggest problemscronyism, nepotism>how would you fix thempicrel
>>16848586there are plenty of colleges made for these sorts
>>16848587>t. lysenko Clown.
>>16848141I've got a hot take. I can't speak for other places, but I think the biggest issue in America is actually how intellectually unfulfilled people are. Universities have become more rigid and dogmatic in what and how they teach, while intellectual life outside of the university environment has seemingly declined. People are frustrated by having to learn things which are irrelevant to their lives or that they can easily poke holes in to get a job, while also never actually using what interested them in the first place. I also cannot help but notice how rude and condescending many professors and TAs are. They seem to have forgotten what it's like to not understand their subject but still be required to tick the boxes.
>>16848141I think it works perfectly for its actual purpose.
>>16848587>picrel>Got in his position because of cronyismLenin didn't want Stalin to replace him.
We all know what's the real problem and I'd fix it by giving each of those problems a 9mm lobotomy through the back of their skull.
You ever notice how every time someone in academia says “we need to stay neutral and objective,” what they 'really' mean is “please don’t upset the donors”? Because honestly, for a sector that never stops bragging about “speaking truth to power,” it’s awfully good at rolling over the second a corporate sponsor clears its throat.And we’re all supposed to nod along like this whole depoliticization project is noble, some kind of enlightenment-era purification ritual that will free knowledge from the messy world of actual human values. Right. Because history has definitely shown that the best way to spark new ideas is to make sure nobody has convictions stronger than a linkedin post.I mean, look at the periods when science actually leaped forward. For the US, it wasn’t during times of calm, orderly, donor-friendly “neutrality.” Some of the biggest pushes in innovation, computing, civil rights–driven social science, environmental science, public health, came out of eras when campuses were basically political bonfires with lecture halls attached. Students and professors were radical, loud, argumentative, idealistic, inconvenient… you know, the usual traits of people who actually change things. Turns out that when people are allowed (or even encouraged) to care passionately about the world, they come up with ideas that actually matter.
>>16849406Yes, I do notice that majority of academiafags need a 9mm through the back of their skull.
>>16849406Fast-forward to today, and we’re told that if researchers want grants, they should scrub their work of anything that might seem “political.” Which apparently now includes words like justice, equity, and honestly probably feelings at this point (real justice, not the corporatized alibi identity politics. kind.) Instead, we’re encouraged to pursue “impact”, but not the kind that impacts society. No, the kind that looks good on a quarterly report for a company hoping to patent whatever you’ve been cooking in your lab.And then we wonder why everything feels stagnant. Why so much academic output reads like it was written by a committee of sleep-deprived interns trying to avoid getting sued. Why huge, burning, urgent problems go unaddressed, while we keep pumping out research papers optimized for impressing nobody except the people holding the purse strings.Maybe, just maybe, the problem isn’t that academia is too political. Maybe the problem is that it’s political in only one direction: toward appeasing private interests that would prefer their products be criticized less, their pollution be noticed less, and their influence be questioned never.But sure, keep telling everyone that “neutrality” is the highest virtue. It’s worked out great so far, for everyone except the people who actually need knowledge to serve the public good.
>>16848157Imagine thinking this would fix anything>Oh but the people in charge would be biased for meAhh yeah ok, understand
>>16848822Common curriculum mods are stupid too. Its already pushed down my throat wherever I go, why do I still have to learn about saving the environment in university.
>>16848141Kick black students out of classes
>>16848141The biggest problem is how beaurocratic it has become. It's too top heavy, with too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak. The highest paying salaries have a much higher ratio to lower paying salaries than ever before in history, and the growth rate is exponential, not linear. Almost all of your tuition fees go into the pockets of the upper administrators and deans. It's completely fucking corrupted to the core with nepotism.
>>16848141>What are the biggest problems in modern academia, and how would you fix them, anon?Overwork and hero worship.Largely, academia is not a viable career path for anyone sane, because it involves working too many hours for generally shitty pay and there is only a single job available in academia.This means people need to get their value elsewhere, from stroking their cocks how smart the are and how hard they can work. But it doesn't lead to better results, it just leads to the same results more cheaply.Academia is largely about squeezing water from a stone.Meanwhile, people get jacked off for being super giga genius experts, when all they do is have time, money and personnel to pursue long shots. It's all largely a numbers game.The fix is that there is no fixing this shit and it's just gonna get worse.
Reproducibility. All this shit is theory until proven otherwise. Lack of money in that regards is why everyone looks at research as memes.
>>16848141Low IQ's need to be barred from most things. Not out of malevolence or as some form of punitive measure, they simply cannot be of use to the development of science. Back when the arts were the highest callings of aristocratic society and even astronomers/mathematicians received formal arts educations as a standard, art schools were extremely rigorous about letting in even somewhat competent and passionate students. The bar for academic and generally non-physical labor in society must be raised again. Unfortunately this is too upsetting to consider and most academic institutions actually rely on this massive increase in revenue so it will never happening.
>>>/d/11422003Derivation floor/ceil; either we have evidence of any fungibility or not
>>16848141Maho is not real and S;G is all-ages.
>>16849412Kys
master's degrees are just handed to anyone who pays for them now a daysthey don't even bother to do the most basic checks to see if students copy paste from a websiteI imagine its even worse now with LLM'sthis is mostly done to get money from foreigners (once they have a master's they can legally replace an American)
