“Evidence is irrelevant for such academics who are more interested in preserving visions of how things should be”
Because leftism is their religion.
I believe in GOD and nothing is going to change my mind. I see evidence for it. Others see evidence against it. I know what I believe.
Academia is rotten and stinks to high heaven. My FIL was a theology prof for 40 years. the stuff these people did to each other and wrote about one another would make your hair stand straight up. These people and their tenure system are completely rotten.
Thanks for posting Mike Adams’ article - personally timely as I’m about to engage in a similar endeavor regarding a promotion in academia, albeit at a much lower level than a university. I can already sense the blood on my forehead from the approaching brick wall.
Believe me, a more self-absorbed, unrealistic and myopic group of people you have never seen.
Everyone has an endless string of creds behind his/her name yet cannot, from one moment to the next, comprehend or recall simple administrative requirements.
OFF this campus, these guys are a mark for anyone with even a child's grasp of how the world REALLY works.
Peer review is only helpful when there is a significant amount of “apple” remaining. When the apple is all worms only worms are recognized as peers. Time to fumigate the orchard.
Academics at public institutions are dictators and hypocrites. They are also public employees and should be accountable to the taxpayers.
I hope to live for the day when a courageous governor takes on the education establishment of her/his state university system. A good start would be reducing the size of the bureaucracy and requiring all teaching faculty, particularly the esteemed tenured senior full professors, to carry a teaching load that keeps them in the class room at least 4 hours per day. Require an addition 2 hours per day of office hours where they are accessible to students and then allow them 2 hours a day for research or administrative work. The screams will be loud, and if the program is properly communicated to the public, will find an unsympathetic audience.
Once the bureaucracy is tamed, and the lazy tenured faculty is put to work, the governor should propose a legislative reform of the tenure system (end it) and a redefinition of the purpose of the university.
Too many senior administrators and senior faculty seem to believe the purpose of the university is to create knowledge through research and writing. As far as state supported institutions are concerned the purpose of the university should be teaching the paying students. Subsidizing social activism, political indoctrination, and peer reviewed writing is not an appropriate use of taxpayer money. Let the academics who wish to engage in research and pontificating to each other apply for appointments to private universities and apply for funding to private institutions and benefactors.
The rot in higher education persists because taxpayers are funding a corrupt system that lacks any external accountability. States government do not have to perpetuate the farce and it is time for governors to lead a major reform effort of public universities to reduce cost to the taxpayers while improving the output.
I’d say the author threw the piano pretty hard. Hope it hurt.