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Duke's accreditation "under watch"; a Brodhead/Steel accomplishment?
Topic Started: Mar 15 2010, 09:32 AM (299 Views)
Quasimodo

http://houndsoftassersville.blogspot.com/2010/03/duke-under-watch.html

(I think this deserves its own thread) :



Duke under Watch
Last week we noticed an interesting little tidbit coming from Wonderland: although buried (intentional?) in the bottom of the Chronicle story, Duke has been put on monitoring status by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

From the Story:

it [Duke] has not “demonstrated that its institutional effectiveness, with regard to student learning outcomes, have occurred broadly in undergraduate and graduate programs [emphasis added],” according to a letter written to Duke by SACS.

Though the accreditation process has been approved already, those of with noses keener than others can sniff between the lines.

While not directly, the Lacrosse Hoax is still having a subliminal effect on Duke. The revelation during the case that many of the involved faculty had little or no claim to academic prominence (of meaning, that is. Just because, for example, Michael Hardt consorts with criminals such as Antonio Negri, or Eduardo Bonna-Silva becomes well known for MEChA-nized hate speech, does not vault them into the annals of legitimate academics). This scrutiny on major institutions demonstrates a far more reaching concern on what qualifies as legitimate research, a mantra originally limited to observers of the case and education reform groups,
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Quasimodo

Another accomplishment for the Brodhead/Steel era?


Drive away the donors, drive away many talented applicants for the student body (but hey, they don't count; it's the graduate programs which make money for the university... and the university is a business after all, not an educational institution...)

and populate the faculty with radicals who manifest significant difficulties mastering English syntax and demonstrate repeated disdain for their students... ("farm animals!")

and spend scores of millions of university funds to keep yourself out of a witness chair...




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Quasimodo

KC on Brodhead, April 21, 2006

"...if Duke president Richard Brodhead really is serious about using the recent events to improve campus culture, there’s an issue that should be addressed: the 'campus culture' of guilty-until-proven-innocent exhibited by a vocal faction of the student body and a very vocal minority of the faculty in the initial weeks after reports of the rape accusation emerged. Duke is, after all, a campus where, before even hearing both sides’ initial version of events, students and some faculty held candlelight vigils and protests with slogans such as 'Real men don't protect rapists'; where a prominent faculty member, Afro-Am Studies professor Houston Baker, issued a public letter urging that the lacrosse players be dismissed from school; where students produced a 'wanted' poster with photographs of 43 of the 46 white lacrosse players, accusing the players of withholding evidence, with one student participant noting, 'It is dangerous to wait for the conclusion of the criminal investigation because the community, in strong numbers, have raised their voices of what this means to the history of the University.'"
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Quasimodo

KC after the case ended:

"At Duke...Richard Brodhead bent over backwards to accommodate the extremists in his midst—even when they (a) abused their in-class authority as professors; (b) produced a guilt-presuming statement falsely suggesting formal endorsement from five academic departments; and (c) appeared to violate the Faculty Handbook in their statements and actions about Duke students. Only Brodhead knows whether he did so because he (to borrow Steve Baldwin’s phrase) feared 'the wrath of the righteous,' or because he genuinely believed in a one-sided approach to the case.

Either way, Brodhead not only survived but received rave reviews from the Trustees’ review committee. The moral: administrators who appease even the worst of the race/class/gender extremists will not risk their employment status by doing so".
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