Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next
Not surprising. Academic admin is no longer about protecting academics or academic freedom, it’s about pushing ideology of whomever holds the purse strings. keeping the money spigot on is all that matters to admin, because they get the fattest cut of it. teachers and students are downstream and get the left overs.
also, can’t have those dead greeks influencing the students to thinking about ‘beautiful boys’.
Not surprising. Academic admin is no longer about protecting academics or academic freedom, it’s about pushing ideology of whomever holds the purse strings. keeping the money spigot on is all that matters to admin, because they get the fattest cut of it. teachers and students are downstream and get the left overs.
also, can’t have those dead greeks influencing the students to thinking about ‘beautiful boys’.