Excellent reply. As a logic instructor, I have observed a sea-change in the type of administrator employed in California community colleges. They use a vocabulary that is universally equivocal, ambiguous, euphemistic, and deceitful. They manage to speak and say nothing through the classical Sophist approach. They are intellectual clones and cowards perfectly suited to lockstep authoritarian leadership. According to a trusted former student who works close to top management, if a faculty member is persistently critical of management boondoggles, administrators look for ways to remove that faculty member. They enlist campus police to co-manage an investigation into the course content and classroom interactions. In some cases, they enroll students to directly agitate and report on faculty who do not comply with the new Social Justice agenda. The goal is to purge higher education of traditional liberal values. At the college in question, even STEM is now under pressure to lower standards in order to improve graduation rates.
May 25, 2023
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