Higher Ed (Not Just UT) -- Celebrate the Brilliance / Laugh at the Madness

Much of the $ value large companies put on the MBA degree comes from a defensive cover-our-asses mentality.

For instance, if management (or the board for a CEO) is choosing between two roughly equal candidates for a high level executive position, one with an MBA one with only a Bachelor's degree, they often choose to elevate the MBA candidate. Why? Because if the newly promoted/hired leader screws things up, they can say "look, he's got good credentials." If they had hired the Bachelor's degree guy, they might be subject to criticism that they hired somebody underqualified.

I have an in-law who had no degree at all, who nonetheless rose fairly high up the corporate ladder at a Fortune 500 outfit. But there was a ceiling she bumped into, and was repeatedly told -- "You're the best person for this opportunity, we really want you in that position, you're very well qualified, but you don't have a degree. We've got to have somebody with a degree." It's just a sheepskin to hang on the wall. It doesn't make her a better executive, but they demanded it. So she had to sacrifice family time to slog through a stupid degree over the years to move up further. Once she got the degree (it could have been a BA in Art History for crying out loud.........), she rocketed up the organization even further. This happens a lot.

At it's root: a defensive, cover-our-asses mentality by mostly mid-level, and some upper-level management in large organizations.

 

IMHO, large organizations (including academia and business) are full of unnecessary levels of mid-management. They might do better if they push more of the micro decision making down to the lower level supervisor/foreman level. Hire and develop really good people for those lower level supervisor/foreman level positions. Then cut out a lot of the middle management. UT and other large universities are bloated.


Von Clauswitz to Von Bismarck: "Give me the best generals, and I could conquer all of France."

Von Bismarck responds: "Give me the best sergeants, and I could conquer all of Europe."

 

Bismarck went on to say, "It was ours anyway".

 

"Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins."

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

This is really bad.

 

Maybe FINALLY soccer moms who thought Orangeman bad will wake up to see how this affects their daughters.
And this, that I boldened doesn't the 6th Amendment trump that?
from link
The new regulations, which appear similar to what was proposed in June 2022, significantly alter how colleges and universities respond to reports of sexual harassment and assault and expand protections for LGBTQ+ and pregnant students.

Other changes make it easier for victims to report sexual harassment and end the current requirement that colleges hold live hearings with an opportunity for cross-examination to allow those accused to confront their accusers. The 1,577-page regulations released Friday are here.

Biden administration finalizes Title IX overhaul

 

Anybody have a link to the reaction or press conference of our former women's AD, who says football should be limited to 22-25 scholarships since only 11 can play at a time?

 

These aren't criminal trials, so the 6th Amendment isn't implicated. Having said that, to regulations like this shouldn't exist. For starters, there's absolutely no legitimate federal role in any of this. But even if we ignore that fact, agencies should not have authority broad enough to enact regulations this important. If the federal government is going to be involved in this (and it shouldn't be), Congress should be making these rules. Again, the Supreme Court needs to step in and kill this entire pile of crap.

 

Deez,

You wanna kill it? How about funds generated by men's sports can only be used for that sport or men's programs? Instead, we can't elevate a club sport to varsity level unless we do the same for a women's sport. Then, you have to factor in the demographics for The University being 60% female.

For those of you not older than dirt, there were a couple of years that Deloss let us dictate which sport or sports our donations to the Longhorn Foundation went to.

 

More Frank Erwin stories, please.

 

Lopiano?

 

Athletes, kineseology types, physics of the body knowledgeable people (or heck anyone) weigh in:

For sports where balance is at a premium, shouldn't women actually be better than men on average? Lower center of gravity. Lower, broader hips.

Downhill skiing
Surfing
Skateboarding
Tightrope walking

Isn't the balance beam routine only in womens' gymnastics, not in mens' gymnastics?

 

Damn you, Chop. I just got home from eating Mexican food and going to a HS ball game with my grandson, turn on the computer and first thing I see is that name. Mexican food is never as good coming up as it was going down.

 

And I thought you liked Frank Erwin...

Or was it that other person I mentioned...

 

I'd kill the entire federal role in higher education. It's all unconstitutional, and it's all bad.

 

This is awful. But they're just bringing it down on themselves. There's a little time left for them to change, but maybe not much, who knows...

That line about the prophets. These punks have no idea what lines they're crossing.

 

Ilhan Omar’s daughter whines she’s 'homeless and hungry' after suspension from elite college · American Wire News

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...


"Following a long line of leftist pseudo-intellectuals and virtue signalers before her, 21-year-old Barnard College junior Isra Hirsi completed a protester rite of passage Thursday when she was arrested. Not long after her brief stint in the poky for trespassing,"

“And also all of my sh*t is thrown in a random lot. It’s pretty horrible,” she added before admitting the extent to which her prohibited “swipe access” restricted her from being on campus was unclear. “For the Columbia students that we suspended, their language says that if you are found on campus you will receive more disciplinary action, but ours doesn’t say that. And also, in my email, it doesn’t explicitly say what else I have violated.”

“I sent them an email like, ‘Hey, I rely on campus for my meals, I rely on my dining plan,’ and they were like, Oh, you can come pick up a prepackaged bag of food, a full 48 hours after I was suspended,” Hirsi claimed. “There was no food support, no nothing.”

 

I'm trying very hard, but I just can't seem to work up even a small portion of sympathy for this spoiled little brat

 

Awwwwwwww, c'mon.
Have a heart.
She's now getting no food support, no nothing, from the school that she's been suspended from. The real world cannot be this harsh.

 

Where was Iihan?

 

I'd guess busy starving her daughter and / or looking for her fourth husband.

 

Ha!

I guess in her branch of Islam, it's not the men who have many wives, it's the wives who have many husbands.

 

Kids Are Giving Up on Elite Colleges—and Heading South

 

This is worth a read from

 

Up North -

* Dartmouth's new head is cleaning it up.
* U. of Chicago isn't what is used to be, but it still has promise.
* Princeton is Princeton - arrogant, smart, but not crazy "woke" like a lot of those places.
* Cornell can't figure out what it wants to be.
* Harvard, Columbia and Yale--screw 'em, crazy "woke".
* Brown--for kids who smoke a lot of pot, are smart but underachievers, and a refuge for the rich trust fund kids who don't want to do much work but still get a prestigious sheepskin, beyond crazy "woke".
* Penn-- not "woke", geared towards the hard-charging $$$$-minded business types. Take the top 5%-10% of the UT Business School, and there's your Penn types.
* Almost all of those NE liberal arts schools like Middlebury, Bowdoin, Williams Tufts, Amherst, Smith, etc.--off-the-charts crazy stupid "woke", worst of the worst, colossal waste of tuition $.



Down South -

* Tulane -- has always been a magnet for this sort of Northern transplant
* Duke -- see Tulane, but the really smart ones
* Miami -- see Tulane, but the hard party types who workout and have beach bodies, and not as smart
* Florida State -- see Miami, but your B/C students
* UT-Austin -- we've got our fair share of the NY/NJ crowd and always have
* Emory -- like Duke without the sports. Rising in prestige. Lots of Northerners
* Georgia Tech -- attracts smart engineering students from all over the country.
* Clemson/U. of So. Carolina -- this is a new phenomenon that I would not have predicted
* College of Charleston -- this is a place where those who might have gone to those NE liberal arts schools like Middlebury, Bowdoin, Williams Tufts, Amherst, Smith, etc., should look into. Very attractive females at CofC.
* Vanderbilt -- seems like a natural place for these Northern students who want to go South to look.

 

Are you still ruminating about where aggy fits in to this equation?

 

Purdue ag school students expelled for porking the pork in the pig pens looking to study in the Southwest.

 

Sometimes a bunch of drunk college guys do something good.