Rocky Top Goes Woke

[GroverCleveland]

Good point, variety and balance in viewpoints is very important.
I have no real idea what the ideological makeup of UT's faculty is today. If it's all radical wokesters with no centrists or conservatives then I'd say there's a problem. Somehow I doubt that that's the case.

Actually brought this up to my state Senator last year. He recognized lack of different perspectives as a problem several years ago as well. The problem is conservative professors are like unicorns, they virtually do not exist.

 

[VolStrom]

Leftist ideas typically come from those that have never worked in the private sector or those so wealthy they’re separated from reality

Hence the old saying "Those that can do, those that cannot teach". People that teach for a living aren't inclined to go out and support capitalism by starting a business or working in one.

 

[EasternVol]

Hence the old saying "Those that can do, those that cannot teach". People that teach for a living aren't inclined to go out and support capitalism by starting a business or working in one.

How many teachers do you know with side gigs? I've known quite a few.

 

[OrangeTsar]

DEI is not “inherently leftist”?

I have a challenge for @EasternVol . Find any DEI administrator at any major state funded university who is on the record as having voted for Trump. ANYONE. Then we can talk

 

[OrangeTsar]

Actually brought this up to my state Senator last year. He recognized lack of different perspectives as a problem several years ago as well. The problem is conservative professors are like unicorns, they virtually do not exist.

Did you ask your State Senator why they continue to fully fund the universities under these conditions?

 

[OrangeTsar]

DEI not inherently leftist?

 

[ClearwaterVol]

This should be obliterated from our midst. The people of TN do not want this in the land of the (still) free. That is why they sneak such things under the cover of darkness.

Rocky Top's DEI Agenda | City Journal

Though UTK had zero administrators dedicated to DEI at the beginning of 2018, it now has at least 26. Though the budget for DEI was zeroed out in 2018, raw salaries for DEI officials, a very conservative estimate of costs, exceeded $1.8 million in 2021. Just as striking as these personnel and budget numbers is the transformation of academic life. UTK revised its General Education curriculum to emphasize “service learning” and “global citizenship,” indicating that the school is weaving progressive political activism into the curriculum.

If this remains, my children will never attend a single class there, I swear it. You will be dead to me and but a memory of the past I once dreamed in a better time.

My my you folks are a sensitive bunch

 

[85SugarVol]

Right.

How?

 

[EasternVol]

I have a challenge for @EasternVol . Find any DEI administrator at any major state funded university who is on the record as having voted for Trump. ANYONE. Then we can talk

I'll let you. Let us know how it goes.

 

[OrangeTsar]

I'll let you. Let us know how it goes.

You Are the one making outlandish unsupported claims. I ain’t doing your work for you. If you wish to claim the world is flat, the burden of proof is on you, not the sane.
Now get to it!!!!!!!!

 

[EasternVol]

How?

It's perfectly possible for the right to push DEI principles. Look at Singapore.

 

[EasternVol]

You Are the one making outlandish unsupported claims. I ain’t doing your work for you. If you wish to claim the world is flat, the burden of proof is on you, not the sane.
Now get to it!!!!!!!!

Nah.

 

[85SugarVol]

$1.8M is chump change. After administrative costs you might be able to hang a few posters and invite a couple speakers.

$1.8M probably is chump change to UT.
$10B is also chump change to Fed Budget.

 

[OrangeTsar]

My my you folks are a sensitive bunch

Some of us still want to leave a fully functioning republic with the basic humanist values of the enlightenment for our grandchildren you know. We don’t want to leave them with Venezuela on the Potomac

 

[85SugarVol]

It's perfectly possible for the right to push DEI principles. Look at Singapore.

Admittedly I have no idea what is going on with respect to Singapore and DEI.

We are discussing the DEI offensive that is being waged here. How is the right pushing DEI here?

 

[OrangeTsar]

Admittedly I have no idea what is going on with respect to Singapore and DEI.

We are discussing the DEI offensive that is being waged here. How is the right pushing DEI here?

The right is about as likely to push DEI as Berkley is to put Chic-Fil-A in it’s food Court

 

[85SugarVol]

DEI is unyielding in its exclusion and ostracization of opposing viewpoints.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

It's perfectly possible for the right to push DEI principles. Look at Singapore.

what about Singapore?

 

[OrangeTsar]

what about Singapore?

I think the assumed parameters of this discussion were western cultures, especially the United States. But I could be mistaken

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

DEI is unyielding in its exclusion and ostracization of opposing viewpoints.

Underrated post imho.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

I think the assumed parameters of this discussion were western cultures, especially the United States. But I could be mistaken

I'm not sure what his point is though.

 

[OrangeTsar]

DEI is unyielding in its exclusion and ostracization of opposing viewpoints.

As is all Marxism

 

[EasternVol]

Admittedly I have no idea what is going on with respect to Singapore and DEI.

We are discussing the DEI offensive that is being waged here. How is the right pushing DEI here?

My point is that there is nothing inherently leftist in the concept of DEI, by definition. It can be applied apolitically and rationally, but probably not in the US. I do agree that today those I see pushing DEI in the US are more to the left.

 

[McDad]

I'm not assuming anything regarding such funding. It may be happening. Where's a good source of information on 'funding of woke silliness in US universities'?

I wish I knew. About 40% of college and university funding comes from federal and state governments. In my very limited experience with government funds, certain expectations are part of the agreement before funds are released.

 

[VolStrom]

How many teachers do you know with side gigs? I've known quite a few.

Never known of one college professor to work a "side gig". Never known of one female K-12 teacher work a "side gig". I think every male K-12 teacher I've known worked a "side gig". What does that tell you?