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Dying?The schools that are UNC non-chapel hill just don't have the same prestige so they are dying.
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Dying?The schools that are UNC non-chapel hill just don't have the same prestige so they are dying.
None? Do you know that for sure? UNC profs go to London, Singapore and the Galapagos as part of a formal exchange. Its hard to believe some professors wouldn't want to spend a summer in Asheville or Wilmington or have family in Greensboro or Charlotte.No profs from UNC have been sent to system schools.
World of difference between a professor at UNC choosing to go to another system school and being “sent.”None? Do you know that for sure? UNC profs go to London, Singapore and the Galapagos as part of a formal exchange. Its hard to believe some professors wouldn't want to spend a summer in Asheville or Wilmington or have family in Greensboro or Charlotte.
NoWorld of difference between a professor at UNC choosing to go to another system school and being “sent.”
Organizing professors is about as easy as herding cats. They’re not getting “sent.”
No
Not being sent
Choosing to , a maybe a couple . Senior administrators-one or two
Thank you. I thought it was obvious that the Chapel Hill professors weren't being picked up by the prison bus and sent to other UNC campuses around the state but I appreciate you explaining it to the fella that didn't catch it. My fault for wording it that way.
UNC Faculty Response Below
Below are EXCERPTS only...Here is the link to the entire op-ed: Op-ed: UNC professor responds to future SCiLL faculty member's New York Times guest essay
"In a recent opinion piece, Rita Koganzon of the School of Civic Life and Leadership railed against coddled college students who, she claims, routinely get away with bad behavior. She gave as examples the failure of campus police to arrest students who drink, the willingness of professors to give A's even for incoherent assignments and students' ability to protest the destruction of Gaza with minimal consequences. Prestigious institutions like UNC are the worst, she wrote, because “the more elite the school, the more acute the problem.” Koganzon seems especially bothered by universities' desire to create a safe environment that promotes growth but limits the opportunities for damage. She cheers the recent curtailing of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts."
"Professor Koganzon is one of 11 faculty members recently hired to help staff the SCiLL. Unlike the joint appointees with homes in other departments, the new faculty have no formal affiliation with existing departments. This school was created — via Board of Trustees fiat, in flagrant disregard for the will and expertise of UNC faculty — for the express purpose of creating a safe environment for conservative thinkers. Although they may be fine people and scholars, the core faculty of SCiLL, lacking departmental affiliations, escaped the rigors of normal academic hiring practices. The school to which they were recruited is unconstrained by traditions of disciplinary expertise. It measures academic merit not by disciplinary standards but by one's location on an ideological spectrum. We can only assume that tenure and promotion decisions in the SCiLL will reflect similar priorities.
Though they would never admit it, the faculty of SCiLL benefited from affirmative action, but of the unjustifiable kind that works in reverse."
UNC Faculty Response Below
Below are EXCERPTS only...Here is the link to the entire op-ed: Op-ed: UNC professor responds to future SCiLL faculty member's New York Times guest essay
"In a recent opinion piece, Rita Koganzon of the School of Civic Life and Leadership railed against coddled college students who, she claims, routinely get away with bad behavior. She gave as examples the failure of campus police to arrest students who drink, the willingness of professors to give A's even for incoherent assignments and students' ability to protest the destruction of Gaza with minimal consequences. Prestigious institutions like UNC are the worst, she wrote, because “the more elite the school, the more acute the problem.” Koganzon seems especially bothered by universities' desire to create a safe environment that promotes growth but limits the opportunities for damage. She cheers the recent curtailing of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts."
"Professor Koganzon is one of 11 faculty members recently hired to help staff the SCiLL. Unlike the joint appointees with homes in other departments, the new faculty have no formal affiliation with existing departments. This school was created — via Board of Trustees fiat, in flagrant disregard for the will and expertise of UNC faculty — for the express purpose of creating a safe environment for conservative thinkers. Although they may be fine people and scholars, the core faculty of SCiLL, lacking departmental affiliations, escaped the rigors of normal academic hiring practices. The school to which they were recruited is unconstrained by traditions of disciplinary expertise. It measures academic merit not by disciplinary standards but by one's location on an ideological spectrum. We can only assume that tenure and promotion decisions in the SCiLL will reflect similar priorities.
Though they would never admit it, the faculty of SCiLL benefited from affirmative action, but of the unjustifiable kind that works in reverse."
It’s interesting that Matthew Kotzen is out. He’s the chair of the philosophy department and went back to get his law degree recently.
Obviously, philosophers pride themselves on fostering open debate.
His absence is evidence that this new school is perhaps only interested in civic discourse from certain perspectives.
Much like the “faculty” at Bari Weiss’s sham University of Austin, who mainly seem to be political theorists and catholic theologians.
This new school is quite literally a school for conservative snowflakes created by the GOP state legislature and their conservative appointees to the BOG for making conservatives feel more "welcome" on an historically liberal university campus. People like Rita are clearly at UNC now to fight the proud progressive tradition and history of the school.
I agree with the opinion in this op-ed, but I wish it had been written by someone that I did not despiseEven if he is right in this opinion piece, Jay Smith can take a long walk off a short pier.
I agree with the opinion in this op-ed, but I wish it had been written by someone that I did not despise![]()
It is a fair point. The BOG is eliminating or starving Departments in The Humanities at the smaller branch schools while seemingly ignoring their needs at the larger ones yet these sweetheart rightist projects enjoy preferential treatment/funding.
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Inaugural Symposium: Is Democracy on the Ballot? - School of Civic Life and Leadership
Is Democracy on the Ballot? UNC School of Civic Life and Leadership Inaugural Symposium Is Trump a threat to democracy? Is Harris? Are those questions misguided? Join us on Friday, September 27, at Wilson Library for our inaugural public event … Read moreciviclife.unc.edu
It is stunning to me that a great school like Carolina is even having this discussion (see the link).
Mr. Trump tried to forcibly stay in power after he lost the last election. Smart people like these panelists are asking and trying to answer this question? We truly live in bizarro world.
Is Trump a threat to democracy? Is Harris?