American
colleges subjected to radical demands for administrative and educator
personnel changes to accomplish racial diversity are making a
fundamental error; they seek to replace the present composition of
people in the system racially with their own race to achieve a
corrupt structure with their own. Reformers ought instead seek to end
archaic hierarchical power structures that implicitly produce
exclusion, elitism of the crooked. Colleges and Universities that are
publicly funded should have open enrollment. Students should brook
no delays in admissions or transfers. College academic work should be
the sole concern of a student investing his or her time to learn.
Hierarchically
organized elites developing social power to corrupt egalitarian
opportunity are a perennial,yet familiar evil in democratic society.
When terrorist, organized crime and ad hoc bureaucratic thuggery
cadres have the edge, direct expropriation of free, democratic
society occurs. As established. Exclusive power structures evolve
goon seek to take those positions as end-in-themselves and corrupt
equal access to have those positions. Advantages even in education are
filled by the power-hungry. A 70's Soviet Tass-like broadcast media
establishment command and control dissemination of political
use-truths amounting to terrorist development supporting propaganda
degrading and marginalizing lawful government. Bureaucratic
sycophants may nod their heads silently in agreement sending more
public money the way of cultcastic doom.
Rectification
of independent opportunity to advance through direct competitive
effort is a challenge facing every generation. Students should not
aspire to be young yippees bumping out corrupt elders becoming the
young professional goon guns themselves.
Colleges
and Universities have ancient origins that began in the feudal era.
Essentially the feudal social structure of hierarchical leadership is
still pervasive throughout American education, business and
government. CEO's and Presidents replaced princes. Though computer
programmers may comprehend problems with hierarchical flowcharting
and processing and design new and more efficient models inclusive of
computer networking and parallel processing potential, social
organizations preponderantly haven't.
Colleges
and University hierarchies and admissions policies implicitly
reinforce elitism and exclusion. Wealth rather than intellect and
will to achieve are given first place in most. It would be a simple
matter to reform U.S. colleges and Universities in order to break
down the hierarchical and elitist walls that prevent some of the best
and brightest Americans from pursuing their higher education goals
without delay or obstructions.
Essentially
the better way would be for public colleges and Universities to offer
open admissions and keep track of student achievement on-line
sharing standardized credits with full recognition and without course
restrictions. The basic educational goal would be to allow and
support complete student independence for all. If enough passing
course credits were achieved then a student using one of innumerable
curriculum templates might receive a degree from a from a credit
consolidating agency.
Neither
ought any fully accredited degree be of less value than another. A
degree from the lowly University of Alaska should carry equal value
with one from Harvard as far as getting a job with the federal
government is concerned. Observe how many Harvard and Yale graduates
have been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court or executive branch
positions historically. A college student should be able to take
course on-line from any public University to construct a curriculum
mosaic in his or her own time within a template leading to a degree
or not and according to his financial capability without experiencing
any of numerous problems other than pure discipline and intellectual
ability that may bump him or her off the most efficient time
schedule.
Instead
of investing in political efforts to transform the organized crime
leadership style of a college or University, student activists should
seek to subvert the feudal hierarchical leadership structure that
corrupts not only the effectiveness of higher education in the United
States, but also corrupts government and business as well. Entrenched
hierarchical organizations are implicitly oppressive so far as
individual rights and opportunity as independent citizens are
concerned. Corrupting organized power best expressed as an archetype
in the Soviet Unionization can't be overcome by replacing the top
leadership. It is the structure itself that need be replaced to
support the principle of individual excellence and independent
achievement.