Source: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/u-of-c-to-introduce-coed-dorm-rooms.html
Date: Dec 19, 2008

The University of Chicago is joining the path of many other socially liberal institutions by allowing male and female students to room together on campus.   One issue to be noted is that the majority of “financing” for these students education are form their parent/guardians.  While the student may now have the choice to room with a significant other, they are also not the individual making the financial choices.  Therefore, the student is a benefactor, but the money, and thus the decisions to allow such choices to students should be left to the “investors” in the institution–i.e. parents, guardians, and those making charitable gifts.

What might those institution investors say about this development?  My humble guess is that these institutions are generally a hyper-liberal extension of society and not reflective of societal values.  Futhermore, as many education theorists would admit–the educational institution is supposed to be a gradual introduction to the society and a discipline, as opposed to a complete immersion into societal values.  But, if it is a complete immersion into society’s contemporary values, cohabitation before marriage, then the institution as ceased to be what it was designed to be, and is becoming no more than a microcosm of the society.

What might all this have to do with learning?  Everything and nothing.  Everything, because the school is supposed to introduce the student into a practice and society, not immerse them in society, while neglecting introduction to a practice.  Neglecting introduction to a discipline, a practice, because cohabitation results in more frequent failures to complete school, pregnancy, and much higher divorce rates.  But, oh wait…. we are introducing them into the society then… what the majority of academics think society is.  Last, it has nothing to do with education, because in these living arrangments, Nothing is what students will eventually get from their parent/guardian’s investment.

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