Posted on 04/26/2023 12:00:07 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Hundreds of professors at the University of North Carolina signed a public letter Tuesday opposing legislation that would require university students to take courses on America's government and founding documents.
The 673 UNC Chapel Hill professors revealed the public letter Tuesday, arguing the new courses and another bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives would constitute an infringement on the university's "academic freedom."
The first piece of legislation, House Bill 96, would require students to take a 3 credit-hour course covering America's founding and history. Required reading for the course would include the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, at least five essays from the Federalist Papers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Gettysburg Address.
The professors argue the legislation "violates core principles of academic freedom" and "substitutes ideological force-feeding for the intellectual expertise of faculty."
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Bet those professors would not oppose legislation mandating CRT and woke ideology in schools.
Dumb & dumber teachers!
Academic freedom paid for with gov’t funds means just give us the money and shut up? I think not.
This is when the State takes away ALL FUNDING for this communist indoctrination camp, then CONgress does the same with Federal Funds...
Fire . . . every . . . last . . . one . . . of . . . them!!!!!!!
Sounds like some government funded pieces of chit need to lose their jobs.
fire every one of them
“substitutes ideological force-feeding for the intellectual expertise of faculty.”
Marxist “ideological force-feeding” is “the intellectual expertise of faculty” in many instances.
University “perfesers” who sign commie horsesh*t like this are little more than a piece of meat with two eyes.
Someone please list all courses and classes and seminars that are required at UNC
for an AA
for a BA/BS
for a MA/MS
Lets compare. Is academic freedom an issue?
Musk showed the way: fire 80%. That should help with the state budget as well.
Don’t give any of these “ universities “ ANY money....not their sports programs, not their different academic disciplines, not their outdoor landscaping.
It’s the only language that’ll EVER get their attention.
20,000 students would sign a letter opposing mandatory science classes.
When I was at University we had to take a mandatory freshman writing course (we had to write what were essentially useless papers of no consequence, graded by a graduate student, we just had to show that we could write papers and present coherent arguments and conclusions, it almost didn’t matter the topic), and we also had to take a math and English class if we couldn’t pass the tests to get out of them. I did pass the tests, but a lot of the students didn’t and resented that they had to take those classes. Plus we had at least one mandatory 101 science class (chemistry, geology, physics student’s choice).
Couldn’t imagine professors protesting teaching.
Many American Universities are not worth the tuition they charge. Wake up America!
Communists have been infiltrating educational institutions since the late 50’s, and NOW people are finally noticing?
“substitutes ideological force-feeding for the intellectual expertise of faculty.”
They do get it.
If you don’t like it, quit.
L
Maybe ALL college and university professors and teachers in this country should be required to take an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution as a requirement for the job. How about making that requirement apply to ALL levels of education in the US? Then the anti freedom communist teaching class can move to a communist country that is more in line with their own worldly and political biases.
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
The Aamerican sheeple now understand that the First Amendment has nothing to do with "free speech & thought"...
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