The political appointees that make up UNC's Trustees just voted to create a new, degree granting "School of Civic Life and Leadership" with no input from faculty about whether it is needed, or duplicates existing parts of campus.
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The resolution about the purposes of the new School is incredibly vague:
Whereas, the UNC-CH community has consistently identified skills in public discourse as
necessary to fulfill the strategic plan’s point regarding promoting democracy and serving to
benefit society"
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So what is the purpose of the School: it is to provide a means to hire right-wing faculty. (Who will then presumably complain about affirmative action plans).
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This reflects an effort to politicize public spaces, removing professional autonomy from professional educators and giving it to political appointees. The fact that the UNC don't have the power to do this does not seem to have stopped them.
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UNC is a great public institution. When I was at UW-Madison, we saw the political attacks it was taking as analogous to what we were experiencing. It has been happening for years. Eventually this stuff takes a toll on the quality of these institutions.
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If conservative donors want to create a center on campus that represents their views, that seems fine to me. But issues of degree design or hiring should be left to faculty, not political appointees responding to what they just saw on Tucker.
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Disappointed that Heterodox Academy is boosting this attack on faculty governance at UNC
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"UNC will establish the School of Civic Life and Leadership and plans to hire professors from across the ideological spectrum to teach in such academic departments as history, literature, philosophy, political science and religion."
wsj.com/articles/unive @WSJ
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It's a State University, how do you think Trustees are appointed? Also, it seems like you're more concerned about tenured liberal professors then you are the opportunities that the Trustees feel are needed?
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These trustees tell on themselves when they bypass faculty & use corrupt machinations to try & force future generations to accept their unpopular "conservative" ideals. It's pathetic using power to legislate lie- & hate-fueled conservative ideology.
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Um… or could just not since there’s already the UNC School of Government, since you know, 1931 😤
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Sad to see this total breakdown of faculty governance at my alma mater. Also, wild to me that "civic engagement", has become the term of art for institutes/programs that will use affirmative action to hire conservatives.
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