I haven't totally given up on our university system quite yet, but I worry that critical theory may have bored deep enough into its vital organs that it's become an inoperable tumor. Apart from creating parallel institutions, are there any practical paths to recovery?
We could admit students & hire faculty based entirely on merit - - talent, hard work, & performance.
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SAT scores, GRE scores, citations, h-indexes... you know, objective metrics.
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I agree that would be great! But sadly I don't see how that gets realized unless all the silent faculty start speaking up before the political bias of faculty gets so skewed that there's nobody left to object.
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Well, I also don't think life experience isn't meaningful. Or diversity for that matter. We've just moved something that should maybe put you over the line to the primary and total focus of our evaluation. I don't know how you come back to that, but I wish we could come back.
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Democrats are busy reversing various state-level parallels of the Civil Rights Act at this very moment. They are not going to tolerate what you mention.
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It doesn’t have to be entirely merit based. But it must require devotion to the principles of free thought, free speech, and common decency. Oh, and also the Oxford comma.
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Cut the funding, it will collapse on its own
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In any university that has a union for either faculty or students this plan is ruled out.
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They would still have to desire to be part of all that.
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