Tracking UNC’s School of Civic Life and Leadership

[heelinhell]

bosco

Yes

But it was a post to mock students needing a "safe space" curriculum to protect them from being challenged by profs and fellow students who have different views.

Back in the day the Viet Nam war and civil rights and women's rights were big issues when I was in college. The conservative students were not afraid to engage with liberal students. Those discussions/debates were informative. Maybe times have changed and conservatives today need a "safe space". If so ,then create a safe space. But do you have to establish an entire shadow curriculum to protect them ?

I could be wrong but I think I read an article looking at the shadow curriculum that would enable a student to graduate without having to take any course outside the protective shadow curriculum.

 

[heelinhell]

Testing would get pretty problematic with those sorts of caveats. It is tough enough as it is.

I take it that your post is in jest?

It was sort of in jest. see my post below yours

 

[tarheelbillie]

I read a little background for the professor. Boring. Ratings mostly 3.0.

 

[donbosco]

I read a little background for the professor. Boring. Ratings mostly 3.0.

Which one?

 

[donbosco]

"
he University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s civics school has been controversial since early 2023, when the campus Board of Trustees called to “accelerate” its development before faculty even knew it was underway. The board’s then-chairman said on Fox News he was trying to “remedy” a lack of “right-of-center views” on campus.

Other campuses in GOP-controlled states have seen discord over efforts to establish similar, apparently conservative-leaning, schools, with faculty battling the university leaders and Republican legislators who circumvent them to build the centers. But things got muddier at Chapel Hill, blurring a simple characterization of left-leaning faculty versus the right. Conservative faculty who initially helped create the Chapel Hill School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL)—including then-provost Chris Clemens—began fighting with the school’s dean, Jed Atkins, over the hiring process.

The university said it selected the international law firm K&L Gates last summer to review “allegations and concerns” regarding the school. Over more than seven months, the review team analyzed hundreds of thousands of documents and interviewed dozens of people."

Cont.

Chapel Hill Keeps Refusing to Release $1.2M Report on SCiLL

Students, faculty and media outlets have demanded the university release information from an investigation into the School of Civic Life and Leadership. News organizations are suing to make the document public.

www.insidehighered.com

 

[Mulberry Heel]

"
he University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s civics school has been controversial since early 2023, when the campus Board of Trustees called to “accelerate” its development before faculty even knew it was underway. The board’s then-chairman said on Fox News he was trying to “remedy” a lack of “right-of-center views” on campus.

Other campuses in GOP-controlled states have seen discord over efforts to establish similar, apparently conservative-leaning, schools, with faculty battling the university leaders and Republican legislators who circumvent them to build the centers. But things got muddier at Chapel Hill, blurring a simple characterization of left-leaning faculty versus the right. Conservative faculty who initially helped create the Chapel Hill School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL)—including then-provost Chris Clemens—began fighting with the school’s dean, Jed Atkins, over the hiring process.

The university said it selected the international law firm K&L Gates last summer to review “allegations and concerns” regarding the school. Over more than seven months, the review team analyzed hundreds of thousands of documents and interviewed dozens of people."

Cont.

Chapel Hill Keeps Refusing to Release $1.2M Report on SCiLL

Students, faculty and media outlets have demanded the university release information from an investigation into the School of Civic Life and Leadership. News organizations are suing to make the document public.

www.insidehighered.com

It should be forever nicknamed The Snowflake School, because that's why it exists. And given all of the controversy that's swirled around it since it was opened it's a joke and will never be taken seriously by anyone but MAGAs who otherwise wouldn't set foot on the UNC campus. Hopefully if sanity is ever restored to our state government and board of trustees it will go the way of the dodo bird.