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- hackernews
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.
College professors once taught free from political interference, with mostly their students and colleagues privy to their lectures and book assignments. Now, they are being watched by state officials, senior administrators and students themselves.
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And several states, including Texas, Ohio and Florida, have created laws requiring professors to publicly post their course outlines in searchable databases.
The increased oversight of professors comes as conservatives expand their movement to curb what they say is a liberal tilt in university classrooms. In the last couple of years, they have found sympathetic ears in state legislatures with the power to pressure schools, and their efforts have gained momentum as the Trump administration has made overhauling the politics and culture on campuses a focus.
But all of this, some professors and free-expression groups say, is leading to a wave of censorship and self-censorship that they argue is curbing academic freedom and learning.
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It’s also for AI companies to steal more data and claim they can teach better.
The panic of people who have never been to school and what they think happens there is so stupid.
Before university I only ever knew a handful of non white kids.
During university I met and studied with tons of friends from every background. It was not the system indoctrinating me, it was putting a bunch of people in a room with a shared interest turns them into friends and suddenly all the stereotypes fall apart.
The truth is when you get to know people of different cultures/orientations then you realize we’re all basically the same. We have the same needs and the same wants. We have different languages, clothes, religions, sexualities. None of that really matters though.
It’s well known that reality has a left-wing bias.
I think this is just a nicer way of saying that most of the lowest 30% of IQ people are right wing.
mandatory reminder that IQ is bullshit. but honestly, it’s not really anything to do with intelligence, I’m far left and I’m pretty dumb. it’s more about education really, and critical thinking. It sounds kinda rude but most people are kinda like NPCs and just go along with whatever they hear most loudly and prevalently from people they trust.
Exactly. Its not indoctrination. Its becoming an educated adult. Only morons think otherwise. Educated people tend to be liberal. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE EDUCATED.
educated people tend to be left leaning, idk about the being liberal part
For most of Canadians and I think Americans, liberal = anything left of centre, while conservative = anything right of centre. I know that’s not what those strictly mean but that’s the generally accepted definitions here at least, and I’m pretty sure in the states too.
The same people that have been sending little Eichmanns into classrooms for decades to try to “get” professors saying something they don’t like are the very same asshats that queen out about being “cancelled” and cosplay at being “free speech absolutists”, LOL.
What conservatives have actually been cancelled, I’d like to know? As far as I know all of them still have a voice, and are platformed more than ever.
It’s because they don’t actually care about free speech. It’s the typical fascist quotes people always copy pasta everywhere. They’re hypocrites and they legitimately do not give a fuck. It was always an excuse to silence critics of fascism.
It’s just a joke with America at this point, they’re all looking at this same puzzle that solves out to “fascism” but it’s missing a single piece and everyone is collectively pretending they can’t figure it out.
It’s not even about missing a piece anymore as much as wilfully holding it upside down.
What they think these tip lines will give: “My professor is dangerously woke, he used someone’s pronouns today and is clearly some kind of terrorist”
What they’ll actually get: about 1000 variations of “This course is too hard; I shouldn’t have to attend the classes to pass”
Source: I teach at a university and we get a few if these every year; “ghosts” who think that paying a fee magically entitles them to a passing grade regardless of the quality of work they submit.
And several states, including Texas, Ohio and Florida
Home of the smartest people in the bottom quarter of the bell curve.
we support small government
They’d be upset if they were able to understand what that means
Yes, the… bottom
I’m just here to say that “We’ve never seen this level of surveillance” is a weirdly hilarious thing to say.
Not saying this isn’t a horrible situation at all, just giggled at that.
Posting syllabuses online, what a novel concept
