Posted on 04/27/2023 8:06:06 AM PDT by cotton1706
On Tuesday, an open letter was circulated that featured hundreds of North Carolina professors declaring their opposition to any requirement that students learn about the United States government and its founding documents.
As reported by Fox News, exactly 673 professors from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill signed the letter as legislation works its way through the North Carolina legislature that would mandate the teaching of such courses. The professors claim that such a law would violate the school’s “academic freedom.”
House Bill 96, the first bill on the subject, would require all public university students to take a 3-credit course that focuses on the history of America and its founding. The course would include such required reading as the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, no less than five essays from the Federalist Papers, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King’s letter from the jail in Birmingham.
The second piece of legislation that has drawn the professors’ collective ire is H.B. 715, which would eliminate tenure at all UNC-affiliated campuses, as well as establish minimum class sizes, and require all colleges to report on “all non-instructional research performed by higher education personnel at the institution.”
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““all non-instructional research performed by higher education personnel at the institution.””
In other words, getting paid to write a book that nobody will read.
Ohhhhhh…..
They don’t want to work.
The first problem I see is that there are FAR too many professors in this state college system.
Fire the lot of them.
In higher academia, it’s a clown world after all.
Won’t even need to write books ... once you have tenure, you can just review books for a living.
These professors would prefer teaching “Quotations from Chairman Mao,”. The little red book.
Professors of Marxism. Lots of them. Been around since my college days in the 60s. And probably before
There should 700 vacancies in the institutions where these people work.
And your TAs do all the grunt work for you, like little liberal elves waiting for their opportunity.
Whomever is keeping the master list please add these 700 to it.
“Ignorance is strength,” they added.
exactly 673 professors from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill signed the letter
Publish the letter.
The second piece of legislation that has drawn the professors’ collective ire is H.B. 715, which would eliminate tenure at all UNC-affiliated campuses, as well as establish minimum class sizes, and require all colleges to report on “all non-instructional research performed by higher education personnel at the institution.”
The professors claim that such a law would violate the school’s “Marxist agenda.”
The professors claim that such a law would violate the school’s “Marxist agenda.”
I think we can easily identify about 700 “educators” that should be immediately fired.
Are they objecting to real history or the fictional history crap that the NYT came up with? I would rather they wouldn’t approach the subject at all than spew hateful propaganda.
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