UPenn Faculty Worries That ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Proposal Could Lead to More Republican Hires
“I don’t want to teach on a campus that has accepted these premises of outsiders being able to say what slogans mean, what can be taught, or who can be teaching things”
This kind of gives the whole game away, doesn’t it?
The College Fix reports:
Penn faculty upset about ‘viewpoint diversity’ proposal, say could mean more GOP hires
A University of Pennsylvania advisor’s question about “viewpoint diversity” has some faculty upset, with one deeming it “a code word for Republican hires” and another planning to retire early.
Speaking with The Daily Pennsylvanian student newspaper this week, history and sociology Professor Harun Küçük said he is concerned that political conservatives will take advantage of the university at a vulnerable time, especially after the recent resignations of President Liz Magill and Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok.
“You can call it a hostile Republican takeover of a distressed institution,” Küçük said.
His and other faculty members’ concerns primarily relate to a Dec. 12 email to the Board of Trustees from Marc Rowan, chair of the university’s Wharton business school Board of Advisors and a major donor. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rowan posed a number of questions about the university’s actions and mission amid criticism about its responses to antisemitism, free speech, and academic freedom.
Rowan asked the trustees to consider ways to create a “community that engenders respect, even in times of disagreement” and re-examine policies on free speech and civil discourse.
He also asked how important “viewpoint diversity” is in university hiring practices and if it is “compatible” with the university’s “current DEI framework.”
Küçük said Rowan’s letter is a sign that conservatives want to “re-engineer the University,” and the “viewpoint diversity” question is “a code word for Republican hires,” according to the student newspaper.
“The kinds of things that he suggests will turn this place into a vocational school. It will turn into something like the University of Phoenix,” Küçük said. “So I hope there are enough people out there with decision-making power who would see that.”
Another faculty member upset by the letter, political science Professor Robert Vitalis said he plans to retire early, according to the report.
“I don’t want to teach on a campus that has accepted these premises of outsiders being able to say what slogans mean, what can be taught, or who can be teaching things,” Vitalis told the student newspaper.
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Doesn’t want “Outsiders” making decisions. Just one more example of when they slip up and tell you who they really are, believe them.
“I don’t want to teach on a campus that has accepted these premises of outsiders being able to say what slogans mean, what can be taught, or who can be teaching things,” Vitalis told the student newspaper.
Right. That’s the job of the insiders, doncha know.
They can’t do that to our pledges!
Only we can do that to our pledges.
Exactly. (Just watched it again a couple weeks ago.)
By the way: Netflix is running Blazing Saddles right now. UNcensored. Who’d’a thunk it?
WOW… leftists / Democrats are truly garbage people to their very cores!
quel horreur!
“outsiders being able to say what slogans mean”
Nope. You want the same old insiders… who, despite being women, can’t even tell you what woman means.
Diverse viewpoints allow students to think, but today’s universities don’t want that; they want to indoctrinate their students.
Diverse viewpoints allow for and foster an “academic” environment.
A truly academic environment fosters a workplace in which academic issues are debated and discussed and defended amongst your peers.
It’s amazing how comfortably smug these self-satisfied a$$holes turn out, in fact, to be!!
The most basic requirement of a true academic is the welcoming , the encouraging, of challenges to one’s own thinking/ideas
They really behave like characters out of BACK TO SCHOOL (Rodney Dangerfield). What a joke
I have been retired since about forever, but back when I was actively practicing law I welcomed criticism. It was how I learned and corrected mistakes. So-called adults these days are too sensitive.
Memo for Prof. Robert Vitalis: Your self- and situational-awareness strike me as…lacking. Don’t let the door knob hit you in the a** on the way out.
The hypocrisy is…literally stunning.
Isn’t it, though? Medically, I would have to refer all of these eggheads to a good colorectal surgeon for rectocranial impaction. I’m not a surgeon!
Because we wouldn’t want some balance to the leftist nuts running academia /s/
God forbid! Republicans! Next thing you know, all those evil-minded alumni will want the Penn faculty to start teaching again!
All I can say is that I hope all of Prof. Vitalis like-minded faculty follow suit.
“I don’t want to teach on a campus that has accepted these premises of outsiders being able to say what slogans mean, what can be taught, or who can be teaching things,”. Perhaps the most hypocritical statement ever made anywhere!!
Of course it would be a political “scientist” (nothing scientific about politics!) who would make such a colossally asinine statement and fail to realize the fatal underlying irony of uttering it.
As for the sociologist saying that UPenn is a “distressed” institution, it was probably the only time in his professional life that he got something right.