Posted on 04/18/2005 7:29:05 AM PDT by aynrandy
Give state higher-ed funding directly to students in the form of vouchers and let them choose whether they want to attend a college that employs a Ward Churchill or a Phil Mitchell.
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We have been waiting for a long time for vouchers. Put loser liberal academia out of business, by empowering parents to send their kids to GOOD schools to be educated, not INDOCTRINATED. If the state governments will just do it, it could be a major upside for all levels of education. Show the libs they no longer have a rat-hole to hide in...
CU is a write-off.
I'm afraid you're right. I really believe that they are just stalling on the Ward Churchill issue, hoping that the rest of the country will lose interest in him and they will be able to coast along as usual. In the meantime, the faux Native American is raking in the big bucks with numerous speaking jobs.
It bothers me that there is no mention of the man's real academic qualifications. Even in history (which is my field) politics does not belong in the classroom. What is necessary is recognition that historical interpretation has been influenced by Marxist dialectical materialism and especially by multiculturalism both of which provide a limited and skewed view of the past. However, hiring people who are not comeptitive in their training and scholarly output is wrong and inexcusable. If this man was an instructor, he probably does not have a PhD.
He does.
Mitchell, a dumb conservative who earned his Ph.D. at CU,....
Do you know the specifics of this case? The article is very vague on just why the professor lost his job. I'm very interested in this topic but this is the first I've heard of this situation. Thanks.
Here is the original story:
A CU prof deserving of sympathy
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E31908%257E2748616,00.html
CU is a joke. Any resume that comes across my desk with a degree from CU will end up in the trash.
The article states that Mitchell received his Phd from CU.
Thanks for the link. What a disgraceful story. What a disgraceful university.
Ping
Check out post 9
He's been a highly evaluated instructor for 2 decades, when he applied, he was told by a collegue that "Conservatives should be rounded up and put in concentration camps". These were his own words on FOX several weeks ago.
You seem to be very smug in defending the criteria at today's so-called colleges, including CU. Personnaly, if a CU grad approached me for work (I hired many recently graduated in my lifetime), I would NOT hire the job prospect based solely on the fact that he attended CU. There are many more qualified, hard-working candidates who deserve an oppotunity for employment.
I actually found that hiring grads with a work history during their undergraduate years is a better roll of the dice than hiring somebody who "went away for 4 years" on mommy and daddy's dime. Much, much more mature workers.
some universities do not hire their own graduates.
the idea is similar to not marrying your brother or sister.
however, there are some exceptions to the rule. and, no doubt liberals and radicals haven't the problems this guy has.
his problems are:
he's a white male, christian, and on the new democrat plantation that's b-a-d.
"Mitchell believes it will take affirmative action to restore ideological balance. And he believes this can only be accomplished by adding the word "political" to campus diversity statements. "
Would reading comprehension be a significant aspect of competitiveness? The article stated he had a Ph.D.
You gotta be competitive in input before you can be competitive in "scholarly output", I bet. Or, these days, probably not ....
The unstated rule everywhere is that you do not teach at the institution where you got your degree. So even though he had a Ph.D., he had no chance ever of being tenure track there at CU. A real question is why this guy never went on the job market.
For decades, it's been understood that to prevent "inbreeding," you do not hire your own grads.
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