Social pressure? It takes a thick skin to be the campus pariah?
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I think that's 90% of the answer.
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My seminary philosophy prof Diogenes Allen (of blessed memory) warned us not to devote ourselves to the pursuit of truth unless we were prepared to be lonely.
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It doesn't seem likely that tenure is causing timorousness, so timorousness is likely to be causing tenure. It may be that offending anyone involved in selection disproportionately affects the decision, so it is the most unoffensive people who are most likely to get tenure.
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The bold and fearless are killed in the cradle; they never get tenure. I’ve seen the same thing many times in business: men who achieve a position where they can say what they think without danger turn out not to have any thoughts.
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Shame is more frightening than disemployment.
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I suppose that keeping your friends is more important than telling the truth.
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Academia selects for boring conformists. It's really shocking that they use tenure to be boring conformists!
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Campus universities? If your whole social circle is in one place it is best to conform.
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Because it's bad for business. A school is just a business after all. Multiculturalism is just a marketing strategy in an international setting. They might install airports at some of these schools soon. It's not the age of identity but demographics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCRNO-v-qA …
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Adverse selection. One doesn’t have the appetite or patience to climb that particular slimy pole if one’s any kind of courageous iconoclast with an appetite for controversy. Only orthodoxy approved “dissent” need apply.
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It's traditional. "A few students discovered that the pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom, could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears." (Alan Bloom, The Closing Of The American Mind)
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Tenure, even emeritus status is no protection. The late Wally Smith of UC blew the whistle on off-the-books payments to favored profs. His office lock was changed and phone disconnected overnight.
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McDonald went out swinging & continues this very day.
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Yes...I follow him on twitter. Should be easy enough to find him. Not saying I'm down with all his conclusions, but he has engaged in real scholarship in a streng verboten area.
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Todays bold tenured speakers are only those riding the bandwagon of courageously fighting white privilege. They would admire the emperor's new clothes
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Nietzsche's chapter on "We Scholars" in Beyond Good and Evil provides a complete portrait of the scholar, his narrowness, cowardice, insolence, and limitations.
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Professors are scholars. Scholars are shy. Even when there are no material consequences to fear, professors don't want to dissent. In my faculty senate, very few people vote against motions, because they all want to be part of the majority. This is not ideological at all.
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