Building weak minds one student at a time.
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Who defines "disrespectful"? There are people who think you are being disrespectful if you just disagree with them.
“In today’s academic caste system, full-time tenure-track professors do substantially less teaching than do graduate students or part-time adjunct teachers.”
“Harvard University’s ratio of administrators to faculty is about 3 to 1; Stanford University has 15,750 administrative staff, 2,288 faculty.”
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Goodnight, Poor Harvard! — Manhattan Contrarian
Yesterday I got two emails from Harvard University, as I presume all other Harvard alumni also did. There’s big news: the Presidential Search Committee has announced who will become the next President of the University. It’s Claudine Gay, currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the large
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This person is set to be the next president of Harvard
Wokee. Proud day for the Haitian nation thoGoodnight, Poor Harvard! — Manhattan Contrarian
Yesterday I got two emails from Harvard University, as I presume all other Harvard alumni also did. There’s big news: the Presidential Search Committee has announced who will become the next President of the University. It’s Claudine Gay, currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the large
This person is set to be the next president of Harvard
Opinion | The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words
Behold the school’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.
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Speaking of silliness and needing shouted down. This stuff is ridiculous
The "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" just screams Monty Python skit.
Opinion | The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words
Behold the school’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.
Speaking of silliness and needing shouted down. This stuff is ridiculous
Laughable. Of course this didn't happen til Andrew Luck registered for classes again. Coincidence? I think not.
So if you have 2 students at a university and they disagree on issues then who is censored? How do they choose which one of the students gets the, "safe place"?The big academic news recently is that two more universities signed on to the University of Chicago statement about free expression. The astounding, disappointing, and bewildering issue is why hasn't every university agreed to the university of Chicago statement? The idea that students can or should be “protected” from disagreeable or even offensive speech and ideas with safe spaces and censorship is not only crazy but builds weak minds and weak people. Is it any wonder that social media, our politics, and our country is such a mess when we are producing so many supposedly educated people who lack the mental and emotional basics to deal with all ideas and speech?
The statement:
“fundamental commitment is to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed. It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the University as an institution, to make those judgments for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose. Indeed, fostering the ability of members of the University community to engage in such debate and deliberation in an effective and responsible manner is an essential part of the University’s educational mission.” (My emphasis)
Read the whole thing.
Oklahoma, Texas, and Other Schools Join UChicago Alliance on Free Speech
I have previously written of my pride as an alumnus of The University of Chicago in how the school has led the fight for free speech in higher education. It is also ranked as the number one free s…jonathanturley.org
An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science
What scientists are able to teach and what research we can pursue are under attack. I know because I’m living it, writes biologist Luana Maroja.
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DEI is a virus that is going to pull down everything.
Biden Admin to Drop Half a Million on Artificial Intelligence That Detects Microaggressions on Social Media
The Biden administration is set to dole out more than $550,000 in grants to develop an artificial intelligence model that can automatically detect and suppress microaggressions on social media, government spending records show. The award, funded through President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion...
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Don't worry though, soon we will have algorithms to make sure that you don't accidentally microagress someone. It will just replace your speech with something more palatable to all the wackos our university system is pumping out.
Research institutions do a helluva lot more than just teach students.
Plus, that student-to-faculty ratio needs to be read in the context of most students taking five or six classes per semester.
I'm OK with the student/faculty ratio. Almost one admin position per student seems a bit high.
A lot of those admin positions are actually research staff. For example, 10% of their staff is made up of workers at the National Accelerator Laboratory.
I have no idea if there is or is not bloat. I'm just saying looking at those numbers without context doesn't demonstrate that there is, and it's quite misleading for someone to compare the staff size to the size of the student body, without reminding readers that the University does a whole host of things that don't involve students.
Thanks Goat. Like IUINSB, that admin staff number made be wonder WTF they were all doing. And I'm quite aware of all the "hidden" employment that is involved in running a major university. It's like running a city in may respects.
