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“Diermeier said he is worried about the ‘replacement of scholarly rigor by activism’ and ‘the erosion of standards in fields’ like the humanities and social sciences.”
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Want to teach rhetoric and composition at Texas *Christian* University?
You should have a background in "trans" or "queer" rhetoric.
https://t.co/keKmsBCNPO
University of Michigan has a new essay series arguing that the Trump admin is creating "regime of forgetting" in U.S. history.
In other words, they don't like Trump's patriotism.
https://t.co/vyotEdnQcO
The University of Nebraska is "repatriating" a gift to one of its professors because a tribe "needs" it.
Where will this stop? Universities are emptying shelves of Native American artifacts. Will other cultures be next? https://t.co/TsZFZLJfPx
Embarrassing for the AAUP and AFT.
They complained a national security audit "undermines scientific innovation and research that benefits all American."
Instead, the audit turned up 80 verboten foreign relationships.
https://t.co/25LUST8Upu
Embarrassing for the AAUP and AFT.
They complained a national security audit "undermines scientific innovation and research that benefits all American."
Instead, the audit turned up 80 verboten foreign relationships.
https://t.co/25LUST8Upu
Michigan professors like Abdul El-Sayed.
But one UMich professor tells us why he supported Mike Rogers:
'Mike Rogers is more qualified, because he has not campaigned with avowed Marxists, or those who have openly supported violent attacks on the United States, or have championed dictators responsible for mass slaughter of innocents, or who despise the American system of government, as El-Sayed has campaigned with.'
Cornell has long been criticized as an academic echo chamber with few conservative and libertarian professors. Now, the faculty has completed a self-study and found...wait for it...that there really are no concrete measures needed to address their overwhelming ideological bias. https://t.co/Xnl7NAhPU7