I understand the decision personally, but I wonder about the long term effect of having dissenting professors leaving these universities - could he not have incorporated some "critical thinking" into his courses to try to counter-program what is being taught elsewhere? By leaving his position, who will replace it? Given the hiring standa…
I understand the decision personally, but I wonder about the long term effect of having dissenting professors leaving these universities - could he not have incorporated some "critical thinking" into his courses to try to counter-program what is being taught elsewhere? By leaving his position, who will replace it? Given the hiring standards and requirements for commitments to "DEI", likely a professor who will embody and convey the same sentiments he observes in his other colleagues, creating more and more of a closed environment to graduate what will still be considered the "elite" graduates in STEM who will go on to found and staff high placed positions in many of the up and coming tech companies, finance, corporations and elsewhere, and if this "oppressor/oppressed/decolonization" ideology is as deeply placed to not be unset by "real world" experiences as was typical of most former "college radicals", then we're looking at having the next generation or two of our most influential sectors run by these grads having these views that will most definitely shape those sectors, as well as those from Harvard etc.
So unless there's some big sea change with employers and industries who no longer view graduates from these universities as "elite hires" and go to hiring and internship pools, abandoning these institutions to this ideology and its promoters seems like a bad long term decision, even if it's just a few here and there, it still matters to have some semblance of dissent and push back on the extremes and the takeover of entire disciplines by this "ideology" by those who can provide it.
I understand the decision personally, but I wonder about the long term effect of having dissenting professors leaving these universities - could he not have incorporated some "critical thinking" into his courses to try to counter-program what is being taught elsewhere? By leaving his position, who will replace it? Given the hiring standards and requirements for commitments to "DEI", likely a professor who will embody and convey the same sentiments he observes in his other colleagues, creating more and more of a closed environment to graduate what will still be considered the "elite" graduates in STEM who will go on to found and staff high placed positions in many of the up and coming tech companies, finance, corporations and elsewhere, and if this "oppressor/oppressed/decolonization" ideology is as deeply placed to not be unset by "real world" experiences as was typical of most former "college radicals", then we're looking at having the next generation or two of our most influential sectors run by these grads having these views that will most definitely shape those sectors, as well as those from Harvard etc.
So unless there's some big sea change with employers and industries who no longer view graduates from these universities as "elite hires" and go to hiring and internship pools, abandoning these institutions to this ideology and its promoters seems like a bad long term decision, even if it's just a few here and there, it still matters to have some semblance of dissent and push back on the extremes and the takeover of entire disciplines by this "ideology" by those who can provide it.