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Topic Started: Jan 7 2016, 09:54 AM (199 Views)
Quasimodo

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http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/04/politically-correct-chickens-home-to-roost/

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Everyone who has ever spent time around a university or with academics knows that beneath all the high-flown ivory tower stuff, there is a constant scramble for money and authority. Every department’s job is to expand itself, to hire more faculty and administrators, to expand its budget, to get bigger offices in a nicer building.

Now the “social justice” faction among the faculty has found a way to club everyone else into submission and win departmental office politics once and for all. Accuse the university of systemic racism, force its nominal leaders into groveling apologies, and then dictate terms to the rest of the system. Emboldened and seeing that no one wants to stand up to them, they’re even attempting to take over every other department of the university by foisting mandatory courses in “social justice” on the math department.

So what looks from the outside like a student protest movement looks on the inside like an administrative coup by a small faction of the faculty, using naive and ill-informed students as their shock troops.

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And what did we see at Duke during the lax case? A faculty faction with an agenda; pressure on
an administration, which groveled.

And then, the Trustees established a new AA Department.

(Instead of rejecting the pressure, it was much easier, for the sake of social peace, just to give in.)

And surely Duke --whose betterment must be the prime concern of the Admin and the Trustees -- is
far the better for it... :sarc2:



Edited by Quasimodo, Jan 7 2016, 09:57 AM.
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It might someday become clear the the actions at duke we due to the difference between the liberal arts departments and the non-liberal arts departments at duke. In one case money is minimal and expansion is rare. The other site generates mega dollars from outside sources and are always building new buildings.

Karal holloway was jealous. She really did not care about cgm. CGM was the vector used to get stuff out of the english teacher. She got stuff.

These liberal arts faculty dont really care about anyone but themselves. That is what makes them so arrogant and self centered..
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/01/authentic-academic-gibberish.php

JANUARY 7, 2016
AUTHENTIC ACADEMIC GIBBERISH

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How about this, from Inside Higher Ed today, from an interview with Sidonie A. Smith, Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities at the University of Michigan, and author of a new book entitled Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times. Sounds possibly promising? No. Take in this answer:



Q: What is the “possibly posthuman humanities scholar” and how does this idea relate to doctoral education?

A: Writing this book, I came to see the new scholar subject as a performative of passionate singularity, hybrid materiality and networked relationality. This is one sense in which the humanities scholar that is becoming is possibly posthuman, and a posthumanist scholar. The locus of thinking, for the prosthetically extendable scholar joined along the currents of networked relationality, is an ensemble affair. It involves the scholar, the device, the algorithm, the code. It involves the design architecture of platform and tool, the experiential architecture of networks, and the economy of energy. It involves the cloud, the crowd and the “rooms,” bricks and mortar and virtual, in which scholarly thinking moves forward. Ultimately, thinking is a collaborative affair of multiple actors, human and nonhuman, virtual and material, elegantly orderly and unruly
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She’s putting us on, right? Did I take a very long nap and wake up on April 1? This is audition for a Rutles remake, right? (Or maybe a remake Getting Straight, if you know that obscure 1970 movie?)

If I was a student or parent of a student at the University of Michigan, I’d demand a tuition refund. “Higher” education has rarely sunk lower
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