Star Professors Channel Sixties

Accuracy in Academia ^ | October 24, 2011 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Academiadotorg]

Noted academics seem to view the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations as a means of recapturing the 1960s, particularly if they missed the latter decade on the first go-round. For one thing, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has endorsed them.

“The AAUP’s Council and Collective Bargaining Congress endorsed the Occupy movement last week–a move that, judging from the volume and intensity of e-mail responses, evoked strong feelings among our membership,” Gwendolyn Bradley writes on the Academe Blog. “For many reasons–including the fact that student access to higher education is increasingly threatened by mounting costs and loans and the fact that faculty themselves have become predominantly low-wage workers with few protections for academic freedom–faculty at more and more institutions are issuing statements of support for or participating in the movement.”

“To name just those that crossed my computer screen in the last day or two: Oberlin College, Temple University, Columbia University, the New School, the City University of New York, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, the Cal State system.” Bradley is a senior program officer at the AAUP.

“What are faculty at your institution doing?,” she asks, challenging her audience of academic insiders.

[dsrtsage]

” “For many reasons–including the fact that student access to higher education is increasingly threatened by mounting costs”

Uhhhh, in what way is Wall Street in any way whatsoever responsible for those costs?

[Billthedrill]

Nothing funnier than a tenured professor railing against The System, unless it's a 60's relic in serious denial that he or she could ever become one of the intellectual dinosaurs they used to mock.

Face it, folks - you're old. You're the Establishment, and spouting dust-covered Marxian slogans isn't going to make you young again. And your students know it. Go ahead, ask them.

[Paladin2]

Institutions of higher learning need to implement a new hiring plan.

To insure Social Justice, all professors are to earn minimum wage, teach 8hr/day and be illegal aliens.