Boston University professor: White Males a "problem population"

[RFayette]

OK, a racial agitating leftist has a teaching position on a university campus?  Color me surprised.

Just as the extreme right is found in some sectors of society (such as fundamentalist pastors), we find the extreme left in others (like universities).  Both can be nauseatingly stupid and annoying.

A college campus is one of the most nonracist places in the planet.  The professor's concern is ridiculous.

[RFayette]

Fewer and fewer men are pursuing liberal arts degrees, or college generally. Things like this make me wonder if there isn't a concerted effort among some in academia to make sure this trend continues.

Outside of STEM and business, guys are definitely in the minority.  Honestly, state legislatures should defund humanities and divert it to STEM if crap like this continues unabated

[RFayette]

Fewer and fewer men are pursuing liberal arts degrees, or college generally. Things like this make me wonder if there isn't a concerted effort among some in academia to make sure this trend continues.

Outside of STEM and business, guys are definitely in the minority.  Honestly, state legislatures should defund humanities and divert it to STEM if crap like this continues unabated

It's not crap like this that is the reason to defund the humanities.  It's that there is such a glut of humanities majors, there's no reason to subsidize them.  The problem is that the way academia is set up is that at the student level its hard to separate funding. Rather than funding students, it probably would be more effective to fund professors directly in the area where they are desired.  That's sort of indirectly happening now, but a more direct funding would likely get the message across clearer.

I agree.  I'm just saying this is more of a "straw that breaks the camel's back" type of thing.  There is no reason to subsidize degrees in which the average graduate ends up working a low-wage job and no marketable skills are gained.