“Senior Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs Heather Lench claimed that citizen inquiry was “harassing” and “threatening.”Lench furthermore claimed that AAF’s requests were a threat to “academic freedom.”
Heather was 12 years old when 9/11 happened. Now she is a senior leader at Texas A&M, formerly a rock ribbed patriotic military and engineering school more much rigorous than the service academies.
heather runs the “emotion science lab” there now.
One of the things academics do best is create new empires and grow existing ones in order to protect and enhance as many of their ilk as possible. All with OPM (Other Peoples’ Money) , of course. The explosion of the Administrative side of all education has been absolutely mind boggling, and mostly unnecessary to the execution of their true responsibility which is the education and preparation of our youth to be responsible, productive citizens, and to provide society with needed expertise in critical areas. So much of what they provide now lies outside of those areas as it’s more about employing only the like-minded, and the indoctrination of our youth. Those cinches around the purse strings of academia need to be tightened considerably.