Eva von Dassow Speaks at University of Minnesota Regents Open Forum, June 2010

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[ddsoco]

She talked too fast. Could have been a lot more powerful with a more polished delivery.

[wbg31245]

@ddsoco

There was a three minute time limit, at the end she is gaveled down. The regents were paying NO attention. The speech is important for its content, not the delivery.

[geodesicks]

I think budget cuts in the arts and humanities reflects our progress as a species in much the same way as the budget cuts and often occasional shutdown of departments of theology in academia over the course of millenia. At one time, theology was the mainstay of academia. And it was the humanities for another period. We're coming to end of this period now. No doubt there will still remain departments of the humanities, just with very limited funding, perhaps as luxury education for the wealthy.

[wbg31245]

@geodesicks

Yeah, like those who go to Harvard, Carleton, and Macalester. By the way the average debt load at Carleton and Mac is LESS than that for graduates at the U of M. So people of ordinary means - who are SMART - can get a luxury education...

[jeffwithtwoels]

I've rarely heard academic reality so clearly articulated.

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[MaCs1313]

@jeffwithtwoels It is an exceptional speech, with accurate and speedy delivery, with a good and firm message. I am in awe.

[jette777]

good going eva

[TSIMedia1]

Prof. Dassow presented eloquently the truth behind higher education’s gutting by the corporate university. That commentators cared about her body movements or characterized her as detached from reality is an indication of America’s brainwashing by capital or possibly deliberate propaganda. Prof. Dassow we would like to invite you to write for our journal or collaborate with us at the Transformative Studies Institute, Regards, John Asimakopoulos, Executive Director (follow links or Google us)

[ShortyLongstrokin]

Her body moves weirdly when she speaks, and she looks like she's wearing a cape. That and the rapid speaking distracts from what she's saying.

[zz44aa]

She's right.

Universities are run by no nothing educrats who are grossly incompetent as well as avaricious.

[macmilla11]

On what planet does this woman spend most of her time? As a member of the same college at the same university, I've seen every cost and revenue projection, as well as the relevant data from the State Economist and the State Demographer. In short, this woman is talking out of her ***. She's a typically example of a know-it-all academic who thinks because she knows about some small subset of "classical and near eastern studies" she can speak authoritatively about economics and management. BS!

[stancatherine1]

She could be talking about Rutgers University in New Jersey! It's a pattern in the higher education "industry" that does not bode well for students or our future as a country that needs a well-educated population and research for today and into the future. Public education is fundamental for a democratic country, but the presidents, other university officers, and the board members treat the universities they are supposed to serve as their own private corporations. This must change!

[neverquestionyoda]

@geodesicks These things are all true. Yet a Humanities degree also has the potential to increase analytic ability, discipline of thought & appreciation for our place in the universe. As for innovation, I feel obliged to point out the field of physics is itself an offshoot from Greek philosophers working in the tradition of Humanities. The result was the betterment of humankind. Perhaps instead of tearing each other down, our respective fields should work together with that goal in mind.

[rhorto01]

@geodesicks Actually it is exactly the opposite dynamic. It is harder to attract and keep the best people to a profession that is continually being squeezed and killed by a death of a thousand cuts. You get all the mumbo jumbo because only the cranks WANT to stay at a job that actually has people losing ground year by year in take home pay But also, mumbo jumbo is the price we pay for living in a free society, the same way we put up with eugenicists or socio-biologists (ie scientific cranks.)