[Tall_Texan]

Some other pearls of wisdom from the prof:

My Teaching Philosophy
1) Teaching is a moral act.
2) Teach peace, freedom, diversity, multiculturalism and challenge American unilateralism.
3) Move beyond the ideological confines of academe.
4) Instructors should be secure and unafraid to express their opinions. They have every right to do so and should be free to engage in academic revisionism in their field.
5) When emphasizing key concepts in your field, confront the canon so that your "discipline" is challenged by questions and not affirmed with answers.
6) Be demanding and have high expectations for your students. They will respond positively if they sense you are hard working, love your subject matter and are dedicated to their learning.
7) Encourage student discussion and debate. Let them know you like to be challenged and that your ideas and values are not a form of proselytizing or domination but a honest effort at conversation.
8) Teach what interests you even in a required "core" course.
9) Publish papers and attend conferences that interest you. They always energize me and give me new ideas and fresh material for my teaching.
10) Be prepared for occasional frustration when students don't always respond to your enthusiasim and dreams.
11) Be who you are; don't try to reinvent yourself should you possibly be challenged by institutional culture. While you should be receptive to new ideas and respond affirmatively to formative and creative criticism, teaching is an intensely personal act-despite its public posture-and one should be true to one's beliefs and ethics.

Just curious. Was his initlal e-mail an "honest effort at conversation" (point seven)??

[ctnoell]

Cool! Expose this b*stard!

[vaudine]

Please note item 4--instructors should feel free to academic revisionism. This guy 's field is History, and he has certainly revised history in his stretch to make the US the bad guys.
He also states his belief in multiculturism, diversity, and the wrongness of US unilateralism--i.e. American sovereignty.
Hope he doesn't have tenure. St. Xavier should take a long review of this pretender who thinks he is a teacher--indoctrinator, more like.

Vaudine

[desertcry]

Tall Tex, you are asking too much from social "science" professors. These brain dead "human beings" have lost the capacity for rational thinking, they have become mindless SLOGANEERs.