The stupid is strong here even with the PhD in Physics!
A pathetic stunt for attention is my guess. Perhaps her promotion & tenure review must be coming up. An attempt to make herself bullet proof for the review! She needs it since she has little to no production in actual physics.
Unfortunately, most universities have gone this way en masse, across all disciplines.
Many students in universities today should never have gotten out of high school. So I guess the reasoning is that they can’t make use of real teachers anyway, so this pap is good enough.
A very plausible theory.
The strategy didn't work out that well for Michael Sam or Colin Kaepernick. We'll see if the physics department at Seattle Pacific University is dumber than the NFL.
Interestingly — and as an aside — I note that the Wikipedia page on Michael Sam currently contains this line:
On August 14, 2015, Sam announced, on Twitter, he was stepping away from professional football due to mental health reasons. He currently shares his experiences as an author and motivational speaker.Perhaps this is a potential future path for Professor Amy Robertson.