Posted on 05/26/2022 8:00:46 AM PDT by DFG
From time to time we like to highlight academic job ads as an indicator of how badly politicized our universities have become. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes the University of Oklahoma with a job ad so jaw-dropping bad that it sets a new standard. In this case, for a musical theater performance slot.
The full ad is quite long, but I’ve excised some of the boilerplate employment language and highlighted the most egregious parts:
Assistant Professor of Performance (tenure-track)
Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre, University of Oklahoma
The A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Performance. Appointment will begin in Fall 2022. This candidate will be a collaborative theatre practitioner/educator who embraces and reflects a broad, multi-cultural point- of-view.
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Along with teaching within the candidate’s specialization, this role may also serve to guide the School of Musical Theatre’s commitment to new works and serve as a mentor to student composers and lyricists. Additional areas of expertise may include non-Western performance techniques, especially from the African diaspora, Latinx, Asian, or Indigenous cultures, or specializations in works from a Feminist or Queer theatre perspective. A passion for Musical Theatre History and/or vocal styles is also welcome. . .
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Should rename it University of Oklahomo
“or specializations in works from a Feminist or Queer theatre perspective.”
Yep , they’ll love that in Oklahoma.
The Wokeness Beast tentacles permeate widely throughout academia.
Liberalism is a CANCER!!
The school knows that all they have to do is trot out the football team and all the fake “conservatives” will fall all over themselves weeping about “muh team” “muh gladiators” “don’t make ‘em mad.”
Tulsa County, Oklahoma County, Cleveland County which is where OU is located are not like the rest of Oklahoma.
Yep.
Oklahoma! Where the woke comes sweeping down the plain...
Wokelahomo
Yes, it’s idiotic, but I don’t blame Oklahoma per se. Every so-called “institution of higher learning” seems pretty crazy-woke and has been for the past 50 years. This is why the last two generations have been so messed up morally and politically.
And unfortunately they dominate the state just like the cities do in Texas and across the nation.
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