The USC business school imbroglio is among the most alarming instances I've ever seen of administrators running roughshod over faculty, undermining academic freedom, and chilling speech in a way that harms all students. (thread)
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The administration cannot help but know that their actions are causing multiple professors to alter their teaching in ways that harm students because they are terrified of being punished for unintentionally giving offense to students.
Will they do anything to alter that?
My reporting and an anonymous survey conducted by the Faculty Council at the school both yielded powerful quotes from USC professors that ought to be more widely known to fellow academics.
Here is what one professor says about how they will react to the climate created by administrators: "I will avoid any diversity and inclusion topics and will strictly stick to safe topics, devoid of any potential land mines.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a leaked report compiled by the faculty council with many more quotes chronicle.com/article/scared…
Read enough faculty quotes and it hits you: USC invoked “diversity, equity, and inclusion” but the actual effect of their actions is to stifle diversity and exclude widely held views from campus discourse that faculty are willing to engage in non-anonymously.
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