Posted on 07/25/2009 12:28:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I meant tenure as a form of unions. With tenure, the incentive to perform is lowered.
As to being lazy, I have worked at both universities and the private sector. Some business profs do work hard, but I am aware of no one showing up at work, producing research or even meeting with students at one university.
At Chicago, they work hard. At Berkeley, they work hard ... at consulting.
Bite your tongue!
That's well over 1% of professors that are Republican, what's the problem?
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In any other area the federal government would relentlessly attack this prima facie case of discrimination in hiring.
The free and open seeking of truth in the classroom should be the criteria—not a nose-counting of political affiliations.
Seek and argue for the truth and God will be with you—as will ultimately the overwhelming majority of people.
In the situation described, turn it to advantage: how can truth be found when faculty are bound in ideology?
You mean a state run university/college tolerates conservative/independent thought? The ivory tower is feet thick and built on totalitarian suppression. Grad students do the work of profs. No one who doesn’t tow the party line advances.
Many if not most engineering and math grad students teaching beginning courses barely speak English. Math books can be so full of errors they’re hardly readable. In fact, a math PhD once told me half the math is taught for a BS, with the other half taught afterwards.
Anyone who doesn’t know this down to their bones is fooling their children. The days of independent, critical thought and study are long since dead at state institutions. Even conservative profs have to sit in faculty meetings, smile and say, “Ummmmm.” No joke.
You might be better off going off somewhere to fix Harleys. And yes, I know someone who did. 800 SAT in math and disgusted.
The situation around the country is terrible. Leftists vastly outnumber Conservatives.
Indoctrination U:The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom
Product Description
In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities. To achieve these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights and created a national student movement with chapters on 160 college campuses. Take No Prisoners is a riveting account of the reaction to Horowitz’s campaign by professor unions and academic associations, whose leaderships have been taken over by the political left.
http://www.amazon.com/Indoctrination-Lefts-Against-Academic-Freedom/dp/1594031908
In addition there are several organizations that fight the campus bias
FIRE (The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education)
and Students for Academic Freedom
http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/
Also a big problem at universities are the huge endowments coming from Arab Gulf Wahabbi sources funding Middle East Studies Departments.
The paper has thus far refused to publish my response to the original article on their website with no indication that submissions have been shut off or closed.
Yet parents send their children to these places. And spend 50k a year in after tax dollars to do it.
Imagine spending that money to have their kids listen to rants by Gates.
109 to 2 ain’t good odds ;-)
Yes, great post.
BTW, there is an alternative to the UofO in Eugene. It is called Gutenberg College. It is a very small liberal arts school with a biblical world view, teaching students how to think about issues. It is near the UofO campus in Eugene.
I feel like Jeremiah. As a nation we will soon feel God wrath.
Heck even if some are "Republican" what does that mean anymore?
BTTT
Good observation, and I believe you are right. The ethos is one of hatred of all that is good and a substitute of all that is self. That certainly supports your view.
My remarks were just stating what it might take to stop the rapid departure from biblical decency. Practically speaking, however, you are correct...it is probably too late. We shall have to see what it is that God plays out with our decaying carcass.
What department were you in?? And what professors did you find to be unbias?
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