Friday, March 7, 2014

BloggeRhythms

I frequently mention the disastrous condition of education in the nation. After forty or so years of continual deterioration in curriculum matter and educators themselves across the board, we now not only have the dumb teaching the dumber, but virtually worthless diplomas at the college and graduate levels.
 
However, although today’s faculties possess practically worthless educational skills, rampant political bias further prevents well-rounded discussion and exposure to different ideas and beliefs, due to a leftist ideology prevalent amongst professorial elitists.
 
A glaring example of that blatant bias has now occurred at Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ where the Faculty Council passed a resolution last week calling on the university's board of governors to rescind its invitation to Condoleezza Rice, who is to receive an honorary doctorate after making a speech.
 
According to Cheryl K. Chumley of The Washington Times, the resolution said Rutgers should not honor Rice because of her role in the war in Iraq and the Bush administration’s policy of "enhanced interrogation techniques," such as waterboarding.
 
Now, aside from the facts that Ms Rice was merely doing her job as directed by her boss, who just happened to be the President of the United States of America, the actions taken by the administration at the time were well within the tested limits of Constitutional authority.
 
But, beyond their disagreement with policies and actions of the administration she represented, one would think her biography and accomplishments would be something that insightful people, purporting themselves as “educators,” would understand to be examples of the very things students looking to their futures would find extremely valuable. 
 
Career-wise, according to Wikipedia, “She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state, as well as the second African American secretary of state (after Colin Powell), and the second female secretary of state (after Madeleine Albright). 
 
Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position. Before joining the Bush administration, she was a professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. Rice also served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and Eastern Europe Affairs Advisor to President George H.W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.”
 
As a youth, “She attended St. Mary's Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, graduating at the age of 16 in 1971. After studying piano at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Rice enrolled at the University of Denver, where her father was then serving as an assistant dean.
 
Rice's initial college major was piano, but after realizing she did not have the talent to play professionally, she began to consider an alternative major. She attended an international politics course taught by Josef Korbel, which sparked her interest in the Soviet Union and international relations. Rice later described Korbel (who was the father of Madeleine Albright, a future U.S. Secretary of State), as a central figure in her life.
 
In 1974, at age 19, Rice was inducted into the honor society Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded a B.A, cum laude in political science by the University of Denver. While at the University of Denver she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, Gamma Delta chapter. She obtained a master's degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1975. She first worked in the State Department in 1977, during the Carter administration, as an intern in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She would also study Russian at Moscow State University in the summer of 1979, and intern with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. In 1981, at the age of 26, she received her Ph. D. in political science from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Her dissertation centered on military policy and politics in what was then the communist state of Czechoslovakia.”
 
Consequently, after reading her extensive achievements, academic as well as educational, governmental and political, maybe it isn't her affiliation with the Bush administration that really concerns the Rutgers’ Faculty Council at all.  Perhaps it’s the fact that after the half hour it would take to present her credentials, they’d be embarrassed that she’d accomplished more in her own life to date than their entire backward faculty put together.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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