Posted on 07/01/2022 12:41:56 PM PDT by karpov
By now, only the most dishonest or intentionally ignorant observers deny the existential crisis facing higher education. Universities no longer even maintain the pretense of dispassionate rational and free inquiry, focusing instead on a particularly toxic and frankly absurd form of “social-justice” activism, increasingly even in the hard sciences.
Why does this situation persist? Here, I can contribute to our understanding, having had a front-row seat to perhaps the most spectacular failure of a higher-education reform effort in recent memory: the “Liberty Institute” at the University of Texas at Austin.
No other recent effort that I know of has boasted the same combination of ambition, near success, and, ultimately, abject and total failure. The effort was undone not through the machinations of the campus Left but through weakness on the part of supposed conservatives, a lesson that anyone else wading into reform efforts should learn.
Our story starts with a small group of faculty in the business school at UT-Austin, who recognized the need to push back against the growing dominance of left-wing social-justice activism on campus. One of us, Carlos Carvalho, was given an opportunity to lead a small, policy-focused center within the business school. Over a few years, we built the Salem Center for Policy into one of the most active centers on campus.
As these activities built up, we developed an increasing network of supporters who encouraged us to pursue more ambitious goals. This was the genesis of what became known as the “Liberty Institute.” We drafted a brief proposal for an independent academic unit that could house faculty with perspectives and research agendas that would disqualify them from employment elsewhere on campus.
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Libtardism corrupts everything it permeates 🤪
Just like the Uni-party mobilizes multitudes of Rino Candidates wherever a “Dem” can’t win...
Folks should not think that the game is played differently in other venues...
Whenever Conservatives are mobilized, expect Fake versions to be slipped into the fray, post haste.
[They] are NOT new at this.
Used to be that while attending college, one learned how to use their high school education to formulate ideas and opinions on higher subjects of learning, and, or, learn a more focused discipline in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, or, at the worse, become lawyers.
Now, it seems, the demonstrations have become textbook examples, the lectures have become compulsory dictation, zu ject matter experts (which seldom are) are held as gurus for their unwavering and decaying decades old information,which all must become committed to memory for recall for su mission of answers toward a yearly final examination, to advance to the next year and level of indoctrination.
No free thought, no self-cross-examination, no generation ofwonderment, or puzzlement to explore.
“Dear diary, upon day one I learned to count to ten.”
“Dear diary, upon day two I
The only group having less value and IQ than Administrators is the studies and eddikashun crowd.
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