Posted on 11/18/2019 2:47:17 PM PST by blam
Professor Richard Vatz of Towson University in Towson, Maryland, says that despite academic world priding itself on “supporting the marketplace of ideas and academic freedom,” there has been “an increasing and unremitting effort to eliminate conservatives” in areas of higher education. The professor added that when he brought up his concerns with the National Communication Association, “they couldn’t care less.”
“There has been an increasing and unremitting effort to eliminate conservatives and conservative thought in the humanities and social sciences in the American academy,” wrote professor Vatz in his recent Baltimore Sun op-ed, entitled, “Towson professor: Higher ed discriminates against conservatives.”
“Higher education prides itself on two overarching values: supporting the marketplace of ideas and academic freedom,” said Vatz. “Channeling the late civil rights advocate President John F. Kennedy, who said ‘Are we to say to the world — and much more importantly, to each other — that this is the land of the free, except for the Negro?'”
“Today, he would have said of colleges and universities, ‘Are we to say to the world — and much more importantly, to each other — higher education today is for diversity and equity except for conservatives?'” he added.
Professor Vatz, who has taught at Towson University for the past 45 years, said that he is also familiar with universities around the country, as he has been invited to speak at many of them, and has been on the Legislative Assembly at the National Communication Association (NCA), as well as involved with the Eastern Communication Association.
“The anti-conservatism is increasing at most national education venues,” said Vatz.
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Colleges are dying and nearly dead. The level of education is now at yesterday’s grade ‘D’ level. ‘C’s are now given where ‘F’s used to be given. ‘A’ are now participation trophies, they are provided for turning in material on time, even poor quality material.
There are also no ‘good’ schools anymore. Even MIT has become a running joke and a poster child for millennials.
re: “it will not allow him to enter a failing grade.”
Ya - remember when “downvotes” used to be displayed on websites?
Notanymore.
Did you mean this post for me or for this thread about academia? If so, I don't understand your meaning.
I meant it kind of as an obscure comment on my lack of interest in the AFA.
In the Hanson talk linked above, AFA = American Freedom Alliance.
LOL!
After my military service, I moved south to Baltimore and got my BA at Towson State. Richard Vatz was my favorite prof and taught a course entitled “Persuasion” which was the 1970’s version of classic “Rhetoric”. That Vatz is still teaching at that institution in the Baltimore/DC metro lib swamp is quite a testament to him.
Actually I just love any opportunity to tease the chair force! ;P
I really should look before I leap!
On this thread, the words “the academy” refers to all the people across the nation who teach in higher education — all universities and colleges. It does not refer only to the military academies, nor to private high schools called “academy.”
Good things still come out of MIT—and Harvard.
But both of them stress “diversity”!! And the president of MIT is a Venezuelan!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Rafael_Reif
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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