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Especially the Columbia Board turning off it's entire Law Review website because it published an article about the international legal frameworks them at grew o
by aprilthird2021 2y ago
Especially the Columbia Board turning off it's entire Law Review website because it published an article about the international legal frameworks them at grew out of the Nakba.
Whatever side you take, it's shocking how quickly elite colleges have whiplashed back and forth and basically taken no simple, practical, strong stance that both upholds order and the freedom of academic expression they've long been known for.
These diversity statements were a large part of it. By making your offensiveness and marketability to students (esp. URM students) a fundamental part of one's hirability, these statements were a part of chipping away at academic freedom that's now led to where we are today.
- EA-3167 2y agoI don't find it shocking, because these institutions have never cared about these individual issues, they just want to be anodyne and acceptable to their target audiences. In a time of turmoil, it's hard to be find that universally acceptable stance.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoI don't think this is true. These institutions did used to care about academic freedom and the ideals they were built around. They have become enormous and full of money and administrators who don't want to jeopardize the gravy train they're on. And now academic freedom is just a marketing term rather than something real