Posted on 10/21/2020 2:56:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's Note: The following piece contains graphic language.
The ugliness that we have recently witnessed including rioting, billions of dollars of property destruction, assaults, murders and grossly stupid claims about our nation has its origins on college campuses. Two websites, College Reform and College Fix, report on the despicable teachings on college campuses across the nation. Let us look at some of it.
In response to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson's tweeting that he supports "citizen soldiers" in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Tressie McMillan Cottom, a black professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science declared that "they have deputized all white people to murder us."
Jesse A. Goldberg, professor in the English department at Auburn University who teaches classes in African American literature, American literature and composition wrote a now-deleted post on Twitter, "f--- every cop. Every single one." Goldberg added, "The only ethical choice for any cop to make at this point is to refuse to do their job and quit."
Eddie Glaude Jr., a Princeton University professor and chairman of the Department of African American Studies said that when it comes to policing in America "Black people still live under the slave codes." Glaude's tweet came in response to news that Jacob Blake was handcuffed to his hospital bed after being shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Glaude added:
"Placing shackles around the feet of Jacob Blake amounted to a physical reminder that he was still, no matter the protests, a n----r in the eyes of these policemen."
New School professor Richard Wolff has called for the abolition of grades. He claims they are not only unfair to students, but also that they are a means of propping up capitalism, and as such, academia would be better off doing away with grading entirely. He went on to say: "Grading takes up much of my time that could be better spent on teaching or otherwise directly interacting with students." Administering grades to students has "little educational payoff" and "disrespects (students) as thinking people."
Wichita Falls, Texas, station KFDX-TV reported that Midwestern State University far-left philosophy professor Nathan Jun wrote on Facebook, "I want the entire world to burn until the last cop is strangled with the intestines of the last capitalist, who is strangled in turn with the intestines of the last politician."
Vanderbilt University scientist Heather Caslin Findley says that "white supremacy, racism, and prejudice" are perpetuated by the concept of "academic freedom." She added, "I hope there are a lot of circles in academia having a serious conversation on how 'academic freedom' upholds white supremacy, racism, and prejudice." Findley also addressed past violent riots, writing that she was initially opposed to the 2015 Baltimore riots and was worried for the police officers but changed her mind. She said: "I was scared for the fires, for the rioting, for the storefronts that would need to be rebuilt. That was my 'protest differently,' 'all lives matter,' and 'blue lives matter' moment. I was wrong and I was called out."
In the wake of financial problems, many colleges are crying broke and want government bailouts, but they have enough money to hire costly diversity people. For example, University of Pennsylvania pays its chief diversity officer more than $580,000 a year. University of Michigan pays it vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer $385,000 per year. Other universities around the country pay their chief diversity officers annual salaries of $200,000 and up.
Many university professors do not buy into the gross academic deception that has become part and parcel of today's college education today. They are too busy with their own research to get involved with campus politics. Rather than being on the committees that run the university, they concede the turf to those who are willing to take the time. Often those who are willing to take the time are not necessarily the most talented people but people with a political agenda to change what has been traditional college education. But all is not lost. Taxpayers, parents and donors who foot the bill can have a significant impact if they would stop being lazy and find out what is going on at our colleges. And, if they do not like what they see, they can snap their pocketbooks shut.
Williams is rock solid. I can’t think of a time when I’ve disagreed with him.
Taxpayers, parents and donors who foot the bill can have a significant impact if they would stop being lazy and find out what is going on at our colleges. And, if they do not like what they see, they can snap their pocketbooks shut.
WE NEED TO USE THIS STRATEGY ACROSS THE BOARD, If every American would think before purchasing and use that power we can bring these people, institutions, companies businesses and corporations to thier knees. Just look how easy they fold like cheap cameras when a black organization accuses them of racism. We made them!
...this si a good one, [”Grading takes up much of my time that could be better spent on teaching or otherwise directly interacting with students.” Administering grades to students has “little educational payoff” and “disrespects (students) as thinking people.”]
..they do that in re-education camps... Why even bother going to these socialist indoctrination dumps in the 1st place???
I taught at a university for a couple years. Grading essays and reports was the worst part of the job.
Eliminate the tax deduction for donations to higher education. They’ll feel the pinch then.
true.... however, I had a professor during my masters ... 1s one actually... he would grade it - show where the corrections needed to be - return it - it was up to me to fix it all - make it better - he would grade it again and improve my over all score... as time went on, I got better and the errors lowered...
So- I did the adjunct professor thing for 2 universities and did the same thing for extra money — most students thought this was an excellent idea - other, thought their papers were A+ right out of the gate... a few others did 1 correction or 2 but that was it — if they walked with a C or B- — that was fine to them... The babies were the ones that wanted to write crap - turn it in and think what the wrote satisfied the requirement. When told no — they actually went crazy... I did that for 1.5 yrs and left the whole behind me... wasn’t worth it - or the pay...
I was also an underpaid adjunct for an online class. A MUCH better paying consulting job came up at a community college. To survive I had the students create an outline of each chapter. For the online discussion they each had to create 3 questions, answer questions of 2 different students, and respond to all answers to their questions. It worked extremely well. There was better student involvement, they had to actually think a bit, and my involvement dropped to near zero. An instructional design colleague thought it brilliant. There first year I used hours reviewing each week’s homework.
-——they have deputized all white people to murder us——
Removal of cancer is not murder. Removal of Cancer is healing, making wel.
smart! -— good way to build team work mentality...
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