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Roy Exum: College Is Changing Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
Over the last few years, I have sensed America’s colleges are changing for the bad. Here is UTC with a reported 50 percent graduation rate and if you send a child to the University of Tennessee it’s being told that if he matriculates for six years, there is a totally unacceptable graduation rate of 60 percent, this where a diploma makes you “a Vol for life.” Far, far worse, American colleges are perpetuating an insane loan program where the average student owes $30,000 before most of them ever have a job.
Zackary Cernak holds the iron ball he found in woods in Russell, while creating a dirt bike trail. Historians are helping the Cernak family try to establish the ballâs likely history and significance. PHOTO PROVIDED BY CERNAK FAMILY
You can leave an 8.4-pound iron cannonball out in New England weather for two centuries, it turns out. It still will be round, though a little cracked. How it got to a Russell hillside, though, remains fuzzy.
Zackary Cernak came across just such a thing late last month, in woods in Russell while creating a dirt bike trail about a mile from the route of the famous General Henry Knox Trail. Today, that path is all but forgotten. A few historical markers, including one in Russell, offer a reminder: âThrough this place passed Gen. Henry Knox in the winter of 1775-1776 to deliver to Gen. George Washington the train of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British Army to evacuate Boston.â
Top-notch higher education explains much of the current scientific, technological and commercial excellence of the United States.
After the Second World War won in part due to superior American scientific research, production and logistics a college degree became a prerequisite for a successful career. The GI Bill enabled some 8 million returning vets to go to college. Most graduated to good jobs.
The university from the late 1940s to 1960 was a rich resource of continuing education. It introduced the world’s great literature, from Homer to Tolstoy, to the American middle classes.
But today’s universities and colleges bear little if any resemblance to postwar higher education. Even during the tumultuous 1960s, when campuses were plagued by radical protests and periodic violence, there was still institutionalized free speech. An empirical college curriculum mostly survived the chaos of the ’60s.