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Lloyd Talbert's avatar

Read the excellent, albeit scary and depressing, article in today’s WSJ from a UCR professor and his experience in DEI hell.

If the FIRE report is accurate, i.e., a majority hold opinion their academic freedom is compromised, the professors have no one to blame but themselves. They’ve allowed themselves to be locked in a prisoner’s dilemma and stay silent.

The answer is simple. Dismantle the bureaucracy and set a maximum ratio of 10:1 of instructors to administrators (Stanford is less than 1:1). When Elon and Vivek are done at the Fed, they need to hire out their DOGE services to academia. Problem solved.

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CDR West's avatar

In the Commonwealth OF MASSACHUSETTS, Harvard alone is granted CONSTITUTIONAL rights to ACADEMIC FREEDOM. Should not that be actionable in law?

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