More Teachable Moments

Campus Report ^ | September 9, 2009 | Malcolm A. Kline

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More Teachable Moments

by: Malcolm A. Kline, September 09, 2009

The latest poll from the Chronicle of Higher Education shows that conservatives make up only 15 percent of faculty and staff at surveyed colleges and universities while most polls show that more Americans than ever before are identifying themselves as right-leaning.

Given this dearth of Tories, it is hardly surprising that in the Washington Post outlook section on Sunday August 30, 2009, found two profs—One from Occidental College and the other from Harvard—who observed that “Ted Kennedy passed the liberal torch to Obama” and then urged “Let’s run with it.” The ratemyprofessors.com ratings on one of the professors—Occidental’s Peter Dreier— indicate that he has been doing just that. “He assigns outdated articles from The Nation as reading,” one reviewer reports.

Also, on September 2, 2009, ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, a protégé of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, spoke at George Washington University. “Cynthia McClintock, the director of the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program at the Elliott School, said at the beginning of the event that GW is a university where all cultures are respected and called for the audience to continue that tone,” according to the GW Hatchet online story on the event by Madeleine O’Connor.

“It is obvious she teaches the class to promote her books,” one reviewer wrote on ratemyprofessors.comafter taking a course with McClintock. “Prof. McClintock’s previous books include The United States and Peru: Cooperation—at a Cost (co-authored with Fabián Vallas; Routledge, 2003 and Spanish edition, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2005); Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador's FMLN and Peru’s Shining Path (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1998) and Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru (Princeton University Press, l981),” her GWU web site reveals....

[Welcome2thejungle]

I hate the term teachable moments. Better yet how about taxable moments or treasonable moments.

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No wonder BHO liked Occidental.

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"The latest poll from the Chronicle of Higher Education shows that conservatives make up only 15 percent of faculty and staff at surveyed colleges and universities while most polls show that more Americans than ever before are identifying themselves as right-leaning."

It's the same situation in business and politics as with "faculty and staff" in universities. That's because the various kinds of leaders--even at the local levels--are related to each other. ...see?

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that conservatives make up only 15 percent of faculty
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And 99% of that conservative 15% are all at 3 or 4 universities and colleges in the nation.