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A broad observation: people in a hierarchy have a strong emotional reaction when those they internally accept as their higher-ups publicly debase themselves. The nature of the reaction probably varies notably depending on whether they're aggressively climbing or seeking stability
I think most college students perceive the hierarchy in which they and their professors exist to be largely collaborative, and they benefit from *their direct higher-ups climbing* moreso than from climbing themselves at the expense of those higher-ups
So when college students watch their professors debase themselves, repeatedly and consistently, they feel anxiety, frustration, and ultimately *resentment.* We had an agreement! YOU are supposed to be guiding ME, raising ME up, but at every opportunity you're lowering yourself!
I don't think it's surprising that they try to bring themselves under the umbrella of the figures that are capturing the social capital & power, and one way to do that is by attacking a perceptibly weak element of resistance: the few who are neither capitalizing nor capitulating
After all, if the resistance succeeds, where does that leave them? Who knows. Their direct higher-ups have already irrecoverably revealed themselves to be unworthy of their position. There's no going back, which is what the resistance appears to be aiming for.
One implication of this story I'm telling (which may be closer to or further from the truth, but definitely isn't the whole truth): **the behavior of the students is largely a dependent variable.** The table is set by a few instigators & a critical mass of faculty fully yielding
My tendency is to think academic authority has been decisively shaped by the move to a retail model: the students as customers to be satisfied. The customer is always right, especially when they’re piling debt to the heavens for their product.
Yes, BUT it's crucial that the customer not *perceive themselves to be always right.* Otherwise the charade collapses: I come to you to be put through a process that you'll certify me for; if you transparently offer whatever process I want, why should I pay you $100k for a paper?
The ideological aspect is the regnant academic obsession w the delegitimation of authority simpliciter—you have a class of authorities advocating campus mutiny against themselves.
So the students want their professors to gain reputation in order to make the diplomas that they receive from the professors seem more legitimate? And the students care more about that than the students themselves actually accomplishing anything?
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