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Posted on 04/09/2026 3:49:51 PM PDT by karpov
News recently came out of Chapel Hill that the flagship campus of the University of North Carolina had adopted a new policy that allowed administrators to record class proceedings at will and without giving notice to professors. Predictably, faculty expressed serious reservations about what they perceived as a new climate of surveillance and aggressive oversight regarding the content of their courses.
Perhaps also unsurprisingly, the pressure from faculty was enough to force the administration to scuttle the new policy. That’s unfortunate. Even before the policy was nixed, it wasn’t very intrusive: UNC stipulated that the practice would occur only in particular situations—specifically, in response to student complaints about course content or teaching approaches.
Why is it unfortunate that the policy was nixed? While even such a modest amount of oversight would have been a step in the right direction for higher education, the truth is that a much more robust policy is needed if large-scale reform of the universities is to proceed. That’s because faculty members across the country have been begging (albeit unwittingly) for more surveillance for at least a decade. How so?
First, after the Obama administration’s creative expansion of Title IX protections on campus, the number of complaints regarding discrimination and bias exploded, increasing by 831 percent at the postsecondary level. This added another thick layer to the university bureaucracy—one that still has immense investigative powers at its disposal. For the most part, faculty welcomed the expansion of Title IX because it purported to offer new recourse for minority groups facing discrimination or harassment on (and off!) campus. But if universities are going to be tasked with significant investigative responsibilities—some of which will have serious legal implications—why should they be deprived of the most effective means to document what happens in the classroom?
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Cameras should be in every classroom in America. It would expose teachers for the lazy, left wing slobs that they are. Not to mention cut down the epidemic of child sex abuse in the classroom.
Just wait until they have this in K-12 schools. Parent will see their sweet little kid bopping another sweet little kid on the head with a notebook - “gee, he never does this at home”.
Teacher: “We’re not allowed to intervene - we have to report this to the principal and wait for the school security officer to arrive.”
“Cameras should be in every classroom in America.”
And parents should have secure passwords to be able to log in to live streaming throughout the day.
They had cameras all over the building where I worked. They never used them unless something happened and they wanted to see the recording.
Cops do it-right? It protects them much to the chagrin of the left. Do it in classrooms and give the parents vouchers.
If the video recording shows the child being intolerable, the parents will be able to see it.
If the video recording shows the teacher being intolerable, the cameras weren’t working that day.
Just make men in charge of the schools again and let them lead and use their judgment.
The female teachers did better when they had men at the top and male sense of rules and punishment.
A friend of mine who teaches at a law school at a large university records all of his/her classes. The reason, according to him/her? Students lie, they get their friends to lie, and they target non-woke professors with a viciousness that would put wolverines and honey badgers to shame. My friend just wants to do their job, but the left has weaponized the feelz of students who have been coddled K-12 and 4 years of college by only being exposed to woke and leftist beliefs. I showed this article to him/her and my friend responded that he/she would absolutely welcome making classroom lectures publicly available for every faculty member.
likewise film admin offices.....to know how promotions and jobs are awarded
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