Mike Rosen's 850am KOA web site: http://www.850koa.com/shows/rosen/index.html
Posted on 04/15/2005 2:42:44 AM PDT by ajolympian2004
Unless he resigns of his own volition - perhaps to take a better offer from a school that places greater value on radical leftist celebrities of questionable scholarship and character - it now appears that the University of Colorado at Boulder will be saddled with Ward Churchill for at least another year or two. Such is the nature of the bureaucratic faculty-review process at CU, which slows justifiable due process to a snail's pace. I suspect this is by the faculty's self-serving design to discourage scrutiny and accountability of the omniscient professoriate.
But that shouldn't deter us from turning the Churchill problem into an opportunity. In the grand scheme of things, Churchill is small potatoes, a pissant. His continued presence at the university will serve as a festering sore, a constant reminder of some of the main problems within higher education these days, specifically, the tyranny of the tenured left and the paucity of conservative professors within liberal arts faculties.
Since CU is a political entity, governed by an elected Board of Regents, the people have a democratic remedy. We can put pressure on our elected regents to do something about this. And we can hold them to account at the ballot box.
Toward that end, I am sending the following letter to every regent, requesting a written reply:
Dear Regent:
The Ward Churchill affair has called public attention to a long-standing problem at the University of Colorado: the lack of political and philosophical diversity within the liberal arts faculty. Not that CU is unique in this deficiency. Even leftist columnist Paul Krugman of The New York Times conceded this point in a column published in the Rocky Mountain News on April 7, 2005: "It is a fact, documented by two recent studies, that registered Republicans and self-proclaimed conservatives make up only a small minority of professors at elite universities." An earlier study published in The American Enterprise magazine in September 2002 reported that faculty members at CU-Boulder registered to political parties of the left outnumbered those registered to parties of the right by a margin of 116-5. While many college instructors may attempt to be fair in their classroom presentations, no one is capable of perfect objectivity. There is no substitute for conviction in one's beliefs. CU students and Colorado taxpayers deserve a more fairly balanced faculty. Diversity is promoted in many other areas of college life from race, to gender to ethnicity. It should certainly apply to the university's primary function, academic instruction.
Of course, you're free to disagree with this premise. And you may believe that there is no problem in this area. The purpose of this letter is to put you on record as a publicly elected official. Should you choose to reply, I intend to share your responses to the following questions with my radio and newspaper audiences. A simple "yes" or "no" answer will suffice; expound if you wish; evasions are discouraged.
1. Do you agree that intellectual, philosophical and political diversity is desirable within the CU liberal arts faculty?
2. Do you agree that leftists currently dominate in this area at CU?
3. Do you agree that there is a deficiency in the number of conservative faculty members?
4. If you agree with 1, 2 and 3, above, are you willing to make a commitment to use your authority as a CU regent to have the university recruit qualified conservative instructors to remedy this problem?
There are nine regents of the University of Colorado. They are elected from each of our seven U.S. congressional districts, with two elected statewide.
Some represent districts that are heavily liberal and Democratic and others that are heavily conservative and Republican. They have different political constituents and different personal agendas. The regents are: District 1 - Michael Carrigan (D); District 2 - Cindy Carlisle (D); District 3 - Gail Schwartz (D); District 4 - Tom Lucero (R); District 5 - Jerry Rutledge (R); District 6 - Paul Schauer (R); District 7 - Patricia Hayes (R); At Large - Peter Steinhauer (R)and Steve Bosley (R).
I'll report back on their responses.
Mike Rosen's radio show airs daily from 9 a.m. to noon on 850 KOA.
YEA!
I think he should begin his program daily with a summary of the answers
AND LACK OF ANSWERS
he has to that date received from the regents.
Regent UMPTEE UMP --no answer
Regent Snodgrass --no answer
Regent Snarklenort --no answer
etc.
CU is hardly an "elite university".
Ping. More university updates.
I couldn't halp noticing that there are 6 Republicans on the Board and only 3 Democrats. Whate are the responsibilities and powers of the Board. Do they not have any input on CU practices and policies (i.e. hiring and tenure of faculty)?
It must really be nice to have such good job security that no matter what you do you will always have a job. I suppose that he could get away with murder also.
University of Terrorists (Colorado at Boulder)
It would seem that a more practical approach from the board of regents would be to leave Churchill in place as a poster child for the left and then fire any member of the administration that had even the slightest hand in hiring this fraud.
Since the administration is staff, they do not have the same rules of tenure as do faculty. They should be terminated for poor performance ie: hiring, promoting, or allowing Churchill to stay........this would perhaps send the right message to the leftists.
Leni
AMEN! THX.
...Churchill is small potatoes, a pissant.
Let me at the bastard, I'll rip him to shreds!!
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