Posted on 04/08/2019 9:34:36 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
Union College president David R. Harris penned an op-ed, entitled, “A Campus Is Not the Place for Free Speech,” in which he argues that it is the role of colleges and universities to filter the conversations on campuses to provide “constructive engagement.”
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We ran into this difficulty at a university where I used to work. The topic was distance learning, i.e. computerized courses with essentially no interaction (this was a long time ago when the technology didn't support that). The model we couldn't avoid was, "Here's the party line. Memorize it. Here's a test. Pass it. Here's a degree." Absolutely no one in the project wanted to reduce education to that model, but there it was, irreducible and unavoidable. That isn't education, and no progress in any of the pertinent fields is possible if the students and the professor are artificially bounded like that.
So no, a university can't really be turned into a padded playpen where nobody has his or her convictions challenged, all in the name of social comity which is unattainable for human beings anyway. Nor is it a place for therapy. If anyone's little feelings are that easily bruised, perhaps rocking in a fetal position in a darkened room is more appropriate than a classroom.
Needless to say any professor who even takes a peek out of the Overton window will be fired immediately!
Even better.
He was a kid during the 70s. He got is BS degree at Northwestern in 1991, so was presumably born in ‘69 or ‘70.
Honorary degree?
Unions President is a black liberal sociologist
Lol
I could have sworn you told us that you were a Tail-Gunner on a Budweiser truck.
I’ve changed that story to a micro-brew distributor. Nobody hijacks a Budweiser truck.
There are those that are so comfortable living in their fantasy liberal world in America.
No matter how you label them at heart they are vile totalitarian freaks.
“Shut up, he explained.”
"...This **** is between me, you, and Mr. Soon-to-be-living-the-rest-of-his-short-ass-professional-life as a College President-in-agonizing-shoot-myself-in-the-foot-self-inflicted-pain here. It ain't nobody else's business..."
Hahaha...I had to think “Overton Window...Overton Window...where have I heard that before???”
I have had college professors argue with me that Twitter and other social media should ban any right wing opinion, especially Trump and students should have space spaces from this hate speech on campus and then turn around and tell me they are into free speech and the open discussion of different ideas with a straight face. They are raving moon bat crazy and hard core tyrants.
“Field guidance” from Union College’s “Dear Leader.”
Not re-education camps, but re-enforcement of previously given indoctrination.
In these leftard ‘universities’, the censorship will still continue to be such that ‘conservative ideas’ NEED NOT APPLY.
When the next American Revolution comes, alot of these willfully partisan ‘academics’ will deservedly be hanging right there alongside their fellow traveler leftist media liars/betrayers and so many traitor politicians.
Truth is not the Leftist’s friend.
Those professors forget that the first thing a revolution usually does is eats its parents.
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