COVID Silver Lining: Higher education might be in jeopardy

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Silver lining. Perhaps this catastrophe will destroy the left-wing indoctrination and co-opting of our children.

Former president of Brandeis University and distinguished lecturer at Georgetown Law, Frederick M. Lawrence, can talk about the extremely difficult situation universities are facing financially as they try to plan for 2020-2021.
Lawrence is also the Secretary/CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and is the former dean of GW Law. He has been a guest on shows on a variety of networks including CNN, FOX and FOX Business and as well as local television and radio stations across the country.
Clip from Great Day Washington, WUSA9
He was recently quoted in Inside Higher Ed:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/03/24/working-home-during-covid-19-proves-challenging-faculty-members

Here is a recent quote from Mr. Lawrence in Campus Technology:

“Lecturing, asking questions to engage students, and asking students to comment on the remarks of their colleagues all transition well to online delivery. More sophisticated use of the online platforms will allow for students to form breakout groups. But even without doing this, many standard classroom techniques can comfortably be used. For instructors who prefer to use PowerPoint in teaching, the ‘share’ function on Zoom, for example, allows for the entire class to see the instructor’s home screen, where the [slide] display can be displayed.” —Frederick Lawrence, secretary and CEO, The Phi Beta Kappa Society

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Lawrence was interviewed by The Washington Post on a related topic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/02/26/universities-pulling-students-italy-south-korea-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads/

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Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago

Three days ago I posted a Comment for the article: CNN censors all reports of Biden sexual assault
Here’s Disqus link to the image I posted. It was tagged as SPAMcomment image
I’m confused. GellerReport rails against Google/FB for censoring & shadow banning your site yet you tag reader posts as spam. There was nothing about my post that warranted tagging it as spam. It was a political statement containing images of public figures. Fair use clearly applies.

This was the second time in two weeks that an image I posted under Comments was tagged as spam. Why???

I would gladly donate to your site if you didn’t engage in the same forms of censorship you accuse others of. I suspect other loyal readers and posters have had had a similar experience.

FREE SPEECH MEANS TOLERATING SPEECH YOU ABHOR.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

some leftard flagged it

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

I must be naive as to how this works. How can people who don’t work for GellerReport flag and censor her internal site content. Does she control site Comments or not?

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Ms. Geller hardly has the time to police comments here, but it does seem like she supports the exercise of free speech here.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago

Agreed, I don’t think she is personally censoring but her site moderator is. DISQUS does not moderate on behalf of each site. Image posts are subject to automatic tagging under a system called pre-moderation. That’s probably what flagged my posts as spam.
I’m just pointing out that Geller site and any site using DISQUS is not a true open free expression forum and that’s OK. I’m an adult and I get it. However, when the entire premise of your site is exposing truth and lies in govt, media, academia, IMHO you should be permitting your audience a wide lattitude to express themselves freely as long as they do not personally threaten or intimidate someone or use the platform for commercial purposes. My image posts have never violated any of those ethical boundaries and yet three times they were flagged as spam.
Clearly, the DISQUS platform operates outside of the constitutionally-guaranteed boundaries of free speech. Now I know.

gfmucci .
gfmucci .
3 years ago

I found that when I tried too many types of photo link attachments too many ways (I didn’t know what I was doing – I was experimenting), I triggered a bot that spammed me. I tried a new post with the same content once I figured things out and it worked fine.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  gfmucci .

Thanks, I’ll try again.

Peter WF
Peter WF
3 years ago

Love it!

M. Marsares
M. Marsares
3 years ago

I’ll bite. Which one’s been banned?

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  M. Marsares

Winnie the Pooh. Google “China Winnie the Pooh”.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

LOL. That’s pretty funny how Winnie the Pooh has been banned from the PRC — I wonder if the ban extends to Hong Kong and Taiwan?

itchy
itchy
3 years ago

Just one, Just one looks like a decent human being. And he’s on the left.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  itchy

No argument here. Hence my post. Zucker’s pulling all the CNN strings and he’s evaded culpability. He lets his on-air “journalists” take the heat.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago

I have a feeling Geller Report had nothing to do with your post being censored. There are plenty of posts here I wouldn’t even think, much less say. I have never been censored here. I have been censored several times on WND for nothing. Most of what I receive labeled as spam is conservative, patriotic, or related to Constitutional rights. That’s why I make sure to check what is labeled spam

nocomment
nocomment
3 years ago

what does this meme have to do with CNN censoring all reports of Biden sexual assault?
what did you actually write?

Philip
Philip
3 years ago

Not your house; not your rules. Build your own house and you can post whatever you want there.

Mathew M
Mathew M
3 years ago

They DISQUS need to be reminded of the fact this is America and we have a Constitution to the People and these STAR & STRIPS will not change, so if you don’t like it or our Freedom LEAVE simple solution but higher education does have its limitations, because it is mostly funded by Communist Government, a lot like the Democrat Party members.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

Let’s Make One thing crystal clear, Zucker wouldn’t be at CNN if he had not been hired by the executives and Board of AT&T. CNN loses money as a division and is closely monitored and supervised by AT&T. What is said and presented on CNN is approved and sponsored by AT&T. Your post is misleading and requires a correction or at least a footnote. Otherwise, you fail to tell your readers who are the actual enemy, IT’S AT&T, I hope you will not forget in the future.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Agreed. But using AT&T instead of Zucker the meme would have made no sense.I have posted several other comments about AT&T ownership of CNN and encouraging AT&T mobile subscribers to switch carriers.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

I agree; however, it is incumbent when posting on the MSM to clearly reference the mega evil international corporations that own and endorse and spread their content worldwide. Less attuned people must understand that when their kids are watching the Disney Channel or tripping off to Disneyland they are exposing their kids to globalist propaganda.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

But I was posting to Geller, not MSM. her audience gets the meme. I’m not able to to reach a broader audience. That’s the job of Fox News.

cylde
cylde
3 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

AT&T also owns direct TV so they area giant evil corporation spreading misinformation on a very large scale.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Direct TV isn’t doing too well, they’re hemorrhaging subscribers like there’s no tomorrow and for Direct TV there aren’t many more tomorrows left.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Nope! Not a chance. They use telelearning. Some also call it tele-education, distance learning or distance education. What does bother the education gods and goddesses is less collective group herding because of “social distancing”. It’s more difficult. It’s also not the same as direct in person pressure for conformity or to be humiliated if you disagree with them. Other than that liberal brainwashers march on.

itchy
itchy
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Remember Demolition Man?. Telelearning What crap..Oh dear! Just got a shitty code violation fine, Fcuk, Got another ticket, Im pissed now.”Another”…….. Saves buying toilet paper.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  itchy

For some subjects it is okay such as literature and liberal art type courses. For the hard sciences, computer science and math it is not (STEM). For example doing lab work it’s helpful to have others nearby if you are doing something wrong and frustrated when results aren’t what they should be.

Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Well stated. There can be tutors provided for far less $ than is currently being spent. Imagine no more need for school buses. The savings could be in the millions overall.

Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Online education requires more discipline. That’s not a bad thing, it’s a necessary thing. It’s not babysitting. It’s difficult. A dedication to learning the material is required. It is surmountable.

M. Marsares
M. Marsares
3 years ago

Defund these universities.
Dry up their money. Boycott their donors and sponsors.

REMEMBER: MONEY SUPPORTS AND POWERS ***EVERTHING.*****

Andrew
Andrew
3 years ago

The reading room of the New York Public Library as the image of American higher education? Well most college students have never seen a printed book only their iPad screen with which they chit chat with their friends on Facebook. LOL

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

I couldn’t care less, UCLA was nothing but an atheist/communist indoctrination camp when I went there — and woe to he or her who disagrees w/their totalitarian professors.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago

I have absolutely no sympathy for any advanced education institution that allows politics to overrule honest truth in education. If they go under because they cannot be honest and above politics then too bad.

george
george
3 years ago

of course. only wogs with money get to go the uni. Indians Asians blacks Arabs. we are truly f*cked. because of rich daddy.

Marius Marzeeone Poradin
Marius Marzeeone Poradin
3 years ago
Reply to  george

What a moronic comment!

george
george
3 years ago

oh yeah!!!!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

Remember how this all came about. Back in the ’60s the New Left, a.k.a. the hippies, published the Port Huron Statement in which they stated their primary goals were seizing “the loci of power”, the universities and the Democratic Party.

It was primarily authored by one Tom Hayden, ex-husband of “Hanoi Jane” Fonda, if that gives you a little perspective on the matter.

dba_ unruly_ vagabond_trader
dba_ unruly_ vagabond_trader
3 years ago

Bill Ayers is another 60s terrorist who went on to pollute young minds.

Philip
Philip
3 years ago

Imagine how much we could save if public education vanished. This “crisis” is a real opportunity to cut so much that has been entirely worthless for far too long. Counterproductive even!

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

Having taught at the college level, I can tell you for a fact that, at least, 75% of my students DID NOT BELONG in college. I had students who could not do simple math … who had no idea concerning sentence structure ….. who, apparently, thought that ‘grammer’ was their dad’s mother. A great many of my students were in college simply because ‘mommy & daddy’ were paying for it, or, were there because ‘someone’ was “giving” them student loans so they could PARTY!!!
Not everyone needs a “college degree” ….. many of my friends have degrees and have been unable to find work in their degree field ….. or, found that their “degree field” was of no interest to anyone but themselves – that is, there WAS no, actual, degree field in the real world.
Most of my students would have been far better off had they found a decent job, started working, ans started saving to better themselves and prepare or a “future”.
But, the HYPE about how EVERYONE “needs” to have a degree and can make fistfuls of money if they have a degree …….. Well, suffice it to say that that is what it is …. HYPE ……. to make sure that the universities get fistfuls of money.

voiceoftruth777333
voiceoftruth777333
3 years ago
Reply to  Leonard Payne

A trade school would have been a better choice for many but the democrats have eliminated most of them and trades are not taught in high schools any longer.

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

More silver lining o ChiCom virus: the murder rate in Chicago has decreased considerably since the creation of the crisis.

Jan Favre
Jan Favre
3 years ago

If cultural Marxist accademia is in jeopardy, this will be a benefit for the US

Name
Name
3 years ago

One of the best ways to fight the left wing crap is via the alumni associations. Colleges and Universities depend heavily on funds collected from their alumni to survive. When they call, or mail you appeals for money just say no and tell them why you’re not contributing. Also remind them that you are not leaving them anything in your will.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  Name

Agreed, too many conservatives alumni continue to support their schools. Out of loyalty, they ignore reality.

colony14author
colony14author
3 years ago

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Broos
Broos
3 years ago

If they can’t thwart Bolognavirus perps; don’t deserve a college degree !

voiceoftruth777333
voiceoftruth777333
3 years ago

I wonder how the professors like being on the record with their left wing statements?

voiceoftruth777333
voiceoftruth777333
3 years ago

With each passing day the youth are seeing how corrupt the liberal media and the democrat party are, after all it is the democrat states that are making a spectacle of themselves by allowing the purchase of pot,liquor and lottery tickets while restricting seeds to grow garden plants and drive in church services.

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