There aren’t that many of these, and most of them are religious institutions. Yeshiva University has long been the standout, ruling over its students (especially its women) with an iron morality fist (would you expect any less from a school whose behavioral models have included Bernard Madoff, Ezra Merkin, Ira Rennert, and Zygi Wilf?). In 2011, when a woman student published a sex survey, she immediately lost her housing scholarship. Around the same time, another woman student published a short story with mild sexual content in a campus publication. The paper was shut down. AND sex filters were imposed on all male students’ computers. Not females’ of course! Because females don’t read… or, uh… write about sex.
And there’s the curiously named Liberty University, whose duce has generated lots of news copy lately. UD thinks The Onion captures the situation there best.
The other source of tinpottery is the southern jock school whose Dear Leader knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness’ sake! U Alabam’s Shahanshah Nick Saban has been in a snit because his subjects don’t go to the blowout football games (they’re always like 70 – 0) he puts on for their entertainment, or if they go they get bored and leave early… and then you know, out in tvland, viewers all over the country see them empty seats and Saban’s embarrassed etc. So the school now tracks its students’ movements:
Alabama is taking an extraordinary, Orwellian step: using location-tracking technology from students’ phones to see who skips out and who stays.
You better not be in the fucking library when you’ve been told to sit on a bleacher in 100 degree heat for hours of grinding nothingness!
But just as in other Orwellian regimes the population rebels, so in ‘Bama, the frat boys have been identified as the avant-garde of the resistance:
[It will] not be long before pledges are conscripted to hold caches of phones until the fourth quarter so their fraternity brothers [can] leave early.
Plenty of precedent for this, mes petites. Remember clickers?
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UD thanks Dave.
September 15th, 2019 at 2:21PM
Does attending college today require accepting either the iOS or Android terms and conditions?
September 15th, 2019 at 3:24PM
Ravi: Looks that way…
September 15th, 2019 at 8:26PM
from the Dartmouth ‘clicker” article:
“Balmer has said the course was initially designed to help student-athletes who may have trouble keeping up with the workload at the Ivy League college.”
i’m surprised they admit this.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:24AM
Sorry for the lack of a link, but from Bama’s Quick Facts Website, out of state enrollment is nearly 57% for 2018. Those scholars pay more than 3x what in state enrollees pay. Despite Bama functionaries’ boilerplate marketing copy, football created that windfall, not the nationally recognized Accounting department. If the PR schtick did become reality, meaning, academics mattered more than football, Bama would, more than likely, go bankrupt. Apparently, it’s far more vital to get asses in the bleachers than butts in the library..,
September 16th, 2019 at 1:01PM
charlie: I’m struck by the multiple ironies Bama is currently experiencing. They made their team the best in the country by far – so now games are a snooze. They made their school far more impressive academically — but smart students at Bama have as much interest in football as virtually all students at UCLA.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:32AM
UD, back in 2013, Jeff Hawkins, a University of Oregon Athletic Department functionary, said that the school was now the University of Nike. “We embrace it, we tell our recruits that.” As far as the administration is concerned, the flagship doesn’t serve the state of Oregon, nor the students. Instead, they’re in place, on the public’s dime, to serve an outfit that made money selling overpriced sports apparel, manufactured in sweat shops, that became profitable by marketing mythology. Can’t say it didn’t work, the school’s profile went from nonexistent, to nationally recognized.
Unfortunately, other unis copied U of Owe’s “success,” and decided athletics was the tool needed to boost enrollment. But, just as in the case of Oregon, it was to serve outside interests. Networks, advertisers, Wall Street bond palaces, benefitted, the public did not. Public unis no longer are accessible to the middle class, not without massive debt. That administrative model is so pervasive, unis that don’t need football promotion still utilize it, as in the case of UCLA and Cal Berkeley. I guess that’s what they mean by “corporate style” governance…