Historian of the 19th Century U.S. and Professor at Gettysburg College. Author of Rebels on the Border and Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau
Forget the Median Voter. This is the Median Candidate we all need. If you don't remember Basil Marceaux's epic run for Tennessee Governor, you need to watch this and learn a thing or two...
This thread is getting a lot of attention but people are ignoring the main threat at the heart of it: AI and especially ChatGPT being used for blatant cheating. Right now universities are still in the "AI is the future! Let's make it work for education!" phase.
People are under-pricing the possibility of a black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly. At some point parents will decide they will not pay $100-400k combined for their kids to cheat their way through college. I expect a bang, not a whimper.
The Syracuse discourse has two components - national/regional trends and Syracuse-specific decisions. Read the article and it's clear that much of what ails Syracuse is decisions made by the university (beyond the weather, rundown city, etc.). Net tuition is just way too high.
Syracuse is in trouble. They borrowed a half billion dollars to build new dorms and now enrollment is sliding.
“The problem with Syracuse is that the school thinks of itself as like an Ivy, but it’s not,” Tavares said.
