A FB wall post got me thinking about Catholic institutions of higher learning, whether they be the older, more established, heterodox sort or the more recently founded, smaller, "orthodox" colleges. Such institutions are likely to use their alumni's success stories to market the value of the education they provide. How many are willing to consider the failures? "It's not our problem."
I know a few men who could not find decent work with a B.A.; at least one had been wandering for a while. He had some personal issues to work through, but he ended up going back to school to get another degree (in order to work as a librarian). How many [male] alumni have been unable to find decent work that would enable them to marry and raise a family?
Then there are the women... some are lucky to find a husband at the school, but many others do not. The [heterodox] Catholic universities follow sex egalitarianism. But the case is also true of the new small Catholic colleges. There is the commodification of liberal education and marketing to both young men and women alike, without any recognition of sex differences. There are a quite a few Catholic alumnae who did not get married until their late 20s or early 30s. Now we might say that this is their fault, or the fault of their parents, but do not Catholic colleges and universities share in some of the blame too? We can't really say that they're just selling a [liberal] education, when they claim to be developing the whole person as well. (And all Catholic institutions make this claim.) How can they do so, without informing young women of what we take for granted in the androsphere - the decline in fertility with age, hypergamy, the wisdom of looking for a husband when young, and so on? If it is a better use of their time to learn the necessary skills and arts for being a wife and to look for men who are established and can support their family, how many of them should be in college? Is there not a conflict of interest, when colleges must be looking for warm bodies to fill classroom seats (and none are willing to entertain the idea of going single-sex)?
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