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2016-03-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

WHAT THE CAMPUS CRYBULLY WARS ARE REALLY ABOUT

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-07 03:54|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 These demands call for politicizing every department, the mandatory political indoctrination of all students and faculty, and the submission of non-political academic departments to activist political ones.
If allowed to happen, more rot will set in and it is doubtful one will be able to get a decent education in these institutions.

Things have gotten so bad at the University of Tennessee that the Legislature has threatened to cut off funding to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion; the office that came up with the non-celebration of Christmas recommendations and new pronouns to satisfy LGBT demands.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-03-07 07:57|| 2016-03-07 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 JQC, I thought Tenn. had pulled that plug.

This is also why government takeover is so important in education. If we have a free market the response is the institution of private schools that don't play these games.

It is classic rent-seeking behavior to get laws and regulations passed to prevent this kind of competition.

Posted by AlanC 2016-03-07 08:36|| 2016-03-07 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 These activist non-academic departments should be chopped entirely. That is if a university wants to protect its own name value.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-03-07 10:51|| 2016-03-07 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't forget, if you aren't a 'named' institution these are in the business of enrollment, not education. Headcount is student loan finance. Funded work-study programs are magnets for INTELS (international and telecommuting students).

Pretty much government funded late-term indoctrination and money wash.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-07 12:01|| 2016-03-07 12:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I like the idea of requiring Physics content and faculty in every major - add a dose of reality. I am willing to leave the math at pre-calculus until upper level English Lit classes. And PDE & tensors until grad level Socialogy.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-03-07 13:10|| 2016-03-07 13:10|| Front Page Top

#6 A lot of new elementary particles, Glenmore?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-07 13:11|| 2016-03-07 13:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Partial Differential Equations (I hadda lookit up).

Laplace Transforms, anyone?

Posted by Bobby 2016-03-07 13:44|| 2016-03-07 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Such requirements would destroy the Journalism school.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-07 13:56|| 2016-03-07 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 I am willing to leave the math at pre-calculus until upper level English Lit classes.

Yeah, that's funny until you see it.
Grad students and Teaching Cert refreshers sweating, shaking and fainting at the mention of minor statistics.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-07 14:49|| 2016-03-07 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 grom, I think elementary particle physics should be included in the Education classes, especially Elementary Ed.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-03-07 15:11|| 2016-03-07 15:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Glenmore, the last time I talked to a physics professor I got the impression that political correctness and the necessity of toeing the line in certain subjects (like global warming) were becoming a problem.

You're aware of Hal Lewis' resignation letter, right?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-07 15:30|| 2016-03-07 15:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Such requirements would destroy the Journalism school.

You speak as if that is a bad thing.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-03-07 15:37|| 2016-03-07 15:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Glenmore, I stopped taking physicists seriously the third (maybe fourth) time one tried to explain to me that evolution can't work (apparently some minds just can'r encompass the idea of variation followed by selection)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-07 16:27|| 2016-03-07 16:27|| Front Page Top

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