York University is the first, but won’t be the last:
York University is the latest post-secondary institution to report financial challenges in the wake of the federal government recently cracking down on international student visas.
But it’s the first university in the country to announce significant program suspensions, said Alex Usher, president of Higher Education Strategy Associates, a consultant group that’s focused on post-secondary education.
In September, the federal government announced it would slash the number of visas it issues by 10 per cent. The new target for 2025 and 2026 will be 437,000 permits, while in 2024, the target was 485,000 permits.
h/t ‘The One and Only C’
Bonus: A quick search revealed some related items:
- One of the usual suspects is upset about York’s cuts. Shocker: He has TDS!
- Here’s an associate professor and race grifter at York on display.
York is a complete and utter sh*thole, a mass of butt-ugly concrete buildings, all thrown up on the bleak industrial prairie of Downsview after WWII, and is presently a hotbed of all manner of academic and student radicalism.
The school once had a bit of a Jewish influence but is now gripped by raging “free Palestine” style anti-Semitism
Per the old Toronto saying, “if you can hold a fork” – although given the updated student demographics, it’s more like “can hold chopsticks, a shawarma or a kebob” – “you can go to York”
Totally agree. I recall walking through Vari Hall one time during an anti-Israel Apartheid demonstration. It was terrifying.
And the wiki page nonsense? I once had a TA (Marxist Lesbian) who liked to boast that she and her friends would make stuff up on wiki pages, just for kicks and giggles.
I had another TA who was a complete Marxist PoS. He’s been on the Sunshine List for some time now. They sure do love other people’s money.
The fact that parents and tax-payers are still throwing billions away on this drivel, dribble, snot and spittle, is probably one of the best indicators you could ever have about the maturity of this country.
I want the U.S. to slash student visas by 50%, with most of the cuts being Chinese nationals. Why fuel their continued growth and prosperity when they don’t like or respect us.
If this is set to hit all post secondary institutions then it won’t be long until U of Ottawa has to tell Amir Attaran his services will no longer be required.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbdpv7G_PPg
And did we tell you the name of the game?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train…
“There’s going to be a lot fewer choices for Ontario students going forward,” he said in an interview with CBC Radio’s Metro Morning on Tuesday.
Fckyou c*ntface.
Training useless twats (gender and women’s studies being #1) how to steal a piece of the pie on the backs of foreigners who already hate our guts.
English (at Glendon College).
Global history and justice (at Glendon College).
Spanish and Latin American cultures (at Glendon College).
Sociology (at Glendon College).
Spanish.
Gender and women’s studies.
Classics and classical studies.
East Asian studies.
German studies.
Hellenic studies.
Italian studies.
Indigenous studies.
Jewish studies.
Portuguese and Brazilian studies.
Religious studies.
Biomedical physics.
Environmental biology.
Well, do any of the above majors actual advance civilization?
Edit: my mistake, most of them appear to be “Undergrad certificates” not Degrees
Not all of these majors need be a Complete Waste of Time for the small minority with an academic bent and really want to study something deeply, and indeed, I encountered some people in law school who’d majored in some of the above and they were not all dull, dumb or uninteresting people (although some were). The issue is is that these disciples have virtually all become – perhaps irreversibly – politicized and their departments have degenerated into Ideology Factories, hotbeds of what Tom Wolfe once called “Rococo Marxism” – i.e., radical, social fabric-destroying leftist cant, our own taxpayer-subsidized Western versions of the radical madrassa.
The other thing is the very real issue of Metastasizing Academic Bureaucracy (the cancer allusion is intentional) or as their good pal Foucault might note, pure power: many of these disciplines – e.g. “[insert adjective here] Studies” – could easily be part of the say the History Department, but if they set up as their own separate departments, they get their own, budgets, chairs, grants, committees, conferences, etc. – i.e., their own Power Centers – and all the other coveted perquisites of academic life. Having been given all this, it seems virtually impossible that any of these clowns would give up their plush sinecures.
Perhaps Peterson is right: the modern university CANNOT be reformed , only supplanted (a Great Replacement we can all get behind).
I think it’s important for universities to offer arts and humanities courses, and for students who are given visas to study at universities to return to their home countries after they’ve completed those studies.
I’m not opposed to universities offering classes in any of the above study areas, (well maybe “gender” and women’s, “global history”? studies) but do think that if they’re going to be offered, then to simply offer the classes within a languages and culture institute, (wait! .. doesn’t York already have a Faculty of Art? … and not have 17 separate schools each with a dept. head and office space and various administrative assistants for everyone.
Is Global History different from History?
Hellenic is separate from Classics?
Spanish-Portugese and Brazilian are separate from Latin American studies?
Biomedical and environmental are separate from biology?
It looks like York needs a management upgrade, and it shouldn’t take a financial crisis to bring it on. After all, they are for the most part spending other people’s money.
I think the CBC is lying when they say there will be fewer choices for students, and expect the vast majority of those classes would still fit within any existing faculty.
No problem.
These Credential Mills will simply move on to issuing the “Credentials of Your Choice” for a fee.
Save everyone some time and energy.
When scanning resume,when you hit “Educational history” the round file calls..
Modern version being “Delete”.
“6 munts ago I could not even spill engineer.
Now I is one.”
Had the tee shirt until it wore out.
Public Education was such a glorious dream.
As humans are so willfully ignorant.
And an education,of other paths,alternate ways and actual history was seen as a way to prevent mass hysteria and wide spread outbreaks of war.
The result?
Kids cannot makes change for a $10 bill.
The most basic skills are buried,not promoted.
Good Enough For Government.
York humanities’ departments have becoming politicized, inserting DEI objectives into their very mission statements.
https://www.yorku.ca/laps/en/
But the joke’s on them. While I hope that there will always be a strong demand for education, the market for political indoctrination is fickle. Who knows which way the political winds will blow next? They have engineered their own demise.
The younger generation has been fed DEI pablum their entire life, and many recognize it for what it is; indoctrination that they put with when they have to, and avoid when they can.
So when offered humanities majors steeped in wokeness, many now look elsewhere.
You might be more accurate using may in front of recognize.
A fellow was telling me about his wife that’s worked in an ICU for thirty years , take a student nurse to task for being on her phone all the time and not paying attention . The student nurse replied ” I’ll still graduate and go on to be a nurse practitioner .” Starting at the bottom is a terribly foreign concept to many , let alone work.
Coddling comes first – DEI was developed for their entitlement, lack of character, and usefulness.
I don’t share your optimism because work ethic , personal responsibility , and critical thinking instilled at home is the ONLY place kids get it these days.
I guess York didn’t make it in on the grift from USAID. 8 of the top 10 foreign universities receiving funds from USAID were Canadian. For the other two, one was UK and the other NZ.
US$4,457,490,156 was paid to Canadian universities. UBC was no. 1 overall, receiving over $1 billion.
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