Mark Horowitz

Sociology Professor

[Mark Horowitz @luvnpower]

@KeithNHumphreys Low grades=low student teaching evaluations=low course enrollments/student & admin pushback. Easy-A profs are displacing those with integrity, prompting more student pushback against profs maintaining standards. Vicious cycle. Getting rid of student evals is a vital step.

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@CHSommers Deeply saddening. Compassion prompting accommodation to intellectual and ultimately cultural decline.

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Going Post-Tribal Is Lonely but Liberating | Psychology Today https://t.co/pfGTqotu6U

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@chronicle Colleges are in a tough spot – raising admissions standards/reintroducing entrance exams lowers enrollment. Profs who maintain standards & spend tons of time with increasingly unprepared students get crushed on student evals; easy-A careerist professors get praised and elevated.

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Another Holiday Dinner, Another Political Meltdown? | Psychology Today https://t.co/Jhlvn7drSj

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@sciencegirl threadbare baby shoes

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@peterboghossian Student evals are a major contributor to grade inflation. Easy-A profs are rewarded, rigorous graders slammed by bad evals, harming their promotion prospects (an absurd system of perverse incentives). Not clear how reporting grade averages will provide freedom from such pressure.

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@cenkuygur This Harris juggernaut/media drumbeat is maddening. The party should listen to Democratic voters and have open debates among contenders. If Harris earns the nomination, then great. But otherwise beating Trump is the only priority, not resignation to an elite coronation.

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@AndrewYang 100% agree, Andrew! Why are people so willing to blindly follow the choice of the party elite? Let’s have open debates, focus groups, and ongoing polls of Democratic voters. Make this a real bottom-up groundswell of enthusiasm rather than an elite coronation.

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@ninaturner Biden's hubris in running again is matched by the Democratic Party's abject denial of reality. As a life-long Democratic, I'm disgusted. We deserve Trump.

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@NAChristakis The erosion of merit in higher ed is real. 37% of faculty in our national survey admit to routinely inflating grades; 33% admit to reducing the rigor of their courses over the years. We offer an explanation as well. https://t.co/ixd0HMjvTm

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@AndrewYang @deanbphillips I've voted Democrat (or occasionally Green) my entire life. Why this is not a national panic among liberals is beyond me. Biden must pass the torch now. It's not the time for elite Party loyalty to Biden's hubris.

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@DamonMast @AndrewYang As opposed to doing what? At least he's out there stating the obvious and crucial truth. We all should be doing so on whatever platform we have (and I am a lifelong Democrat, by the way).

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@AndrewYang @jackshafer I don't understand the hostility toward you at all, Andrew. You're stating the obvious truth. Biden must step down -- how my liberal friends can't see this is beyond me.

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@HMDatMI @GlennLoury The erosion of merit in higher ed is real. 37% of faculty in our national survey admit to routinely inflating grades; 33% admit to reducing the rigor of their courses over the years. We offer an explanation as well. https://t.co/ixd0HMjvTm

[Mark Horowitz @luvnpower]

@HMDatMI @jordanbpeterson Our national survey of professors shows that course expectations and demands for merit are in decline. Yet wokeness is only part of the story. Corporatization and student fragility/entitlement matter too (what we dub the “broke-woke-stroke” convergence). https://t.co/K4u6NuBvnW

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@peterboghossian @VivekGRamaswamy Market and cultural forces are mutually reinforcing to undermine merit and academic standards. Our national survey of professors shows that many routinely inflate grades and water down their courses. We call it the "broke-woke-stroke" convergence https://t.co/NRUxrcKCCt

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@EPoe187 A relevant question is whether competition can endure without tying disparate outcomes to real differentials in wealth & power in society. Could rewards of status/societal esteem alone will be enough to animate high aspirations in all domains (science, art, etc.)?

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@ChimpMega @GadSaad The problem is the market and cultural forces are mutually reinforcing to reduce standards. We call it the "broke-woke-stroke" convergence. https://t.co/K4u6NuC3du

[Mark Horowitz @luvnpower]

@GadSaad Nationwide survey: 37% of professors admit to routinely inflating grades and 33% to watering down courses. Lots of sensitive questions in my and colleagues’ recent survey https://t.co/K4u6NuC3du