Posted on 08/05/2022 1:10:46 PM PDT by karpov
There is much discussion in academia at present about the future of tenure.
Critics of this protection from political or moral pressure against freedom of inquiry include both left-progressives, who see it as an illegitimate method to prevent the penalization of conservatives, and some on the right who believe that market forces should be allowed to operate more transparently in higher education.
Still others see the maintenance of tenure as the only way to stave off the thorough politicization of an already highly politicized academic life.
One thing is clear amidst the debate: As the institutions of higher education are transformed by the ongoing DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity) revolution, tenure will no longer have the same meaning or practical effect it once did. Where it once served to provide some level of protection for scholars rigorously and unqualifiedly pursuing truth, tenure will be made toothless by shifting definitions of expertise and competence. Furthermore, it will serve as a mechanism for ensuring that any pushback against DIE extremism from outside the ranks of academia will be toothless.
When the policy of tenure first emerged, academic culture was united around a shared ethic. The 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure by the American Association of University Professors expressed the core value of that ethic: “The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition.”
This was the world of academia in the mid-20th century: There was wide agreement that the shared task was to seek, discuss, and expound the truth. This was universally recognized as the only legitimation for such institutions and as an objective good.
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Get rid of tenure. Make all profs contractors.
Expand diversity requirements to include diversity of thought and apply them to faculty and administrators.
Effectively, that means no Leftists need apply in Academia for about 15-20 years until balance is restored.
“Expand diversity requirements to include diversity of thought and apply them to faculty and administrators.”
You or either naive or not paying attention. Diversity of thought has to be defined and enforced. That is what DIE is all about. If you resist the DIE agenda coming down from on high, you are proving you have no diversity of thought and you are out. It is that simple.
Are you a registered Republican?
Do you contribute to gun rights organizations?
Are you pro life?
What is your view of transgenders in the military?
How about teaching transgenderism in school?
Are you for or against building a wall on the border?
etc etc. Diversity of thought. Require it. We all know the faculty and admins are not just leftist Democrats but overwhelmingly so. That will have to be changed.
Somehow universities can't scrape by with their students only paying over $20,000 a year and getting all those big bucks from alumni.
Maybe if they didn't hire so many administrators they could afford to hire teachers as employees with benefits with or without tenure, but they gots to have them theys DIE and LGBTQIA+ directors.
Yep. Pick out anybody with diversity, equity or inclusion/inclusiveness in their job title and fire them. Abolish the position.
It goes for the military as well as for universities.
Radically slash the number of admins and slash their pay. We got along just fine without them.
When the republicans return to power they should make it illegals for universities to create DIE documents that professors have to sign.
If you resist the DIE agenda coming down from on high, you are proving you have no diversity of thought
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perhaps what you think you said and what you actually said are two different things.
Is this what you meant to say?
“Somehow universities can’t scrape by with their students only paying over $20,000 a year and getting all those big bucks from alumni.”
$20,000? Average tuition and fees at private universities in the US is almost double that — $38,185.
“...perhaps what you think you said and what you actually said are two different things.
Is this what you meant to say?”
Talk about a strange question. Why would I post something and not know what I was posting?
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