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John Warner
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Bill Gates has his eyes on higher education. I implore him to stay away before he harms again. If that doesn't work, I hope we have the strength to resist him. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
The world view Bill Gates brings to higher ed is anti-education. He was all-in on MOOCs and now thinks personalized learning (algorithm-mediated content on screens) is the way to go. His agenda isn't hidden. This is from 6 years ago. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
This is where Bill Gates sent his kids to high school. See if you can find any resemblance between the experience at Lakeside Prep and what he promotes for everyone else's kid. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
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John Warner
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What's happening at the University of Alaska is terrible, but I don't believe it's a bellwether. I think it's a swan song for Clark Kerr's vision of the "multiversity" which has been heading towards extinction for quite some time. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
Kerr's conception of the multiversity was an institution dedicated to producing "new knowledge in all its forms." This meant institutions dedicated to both teaching and research. What's happening suddenly at Alaska happened in slow-mo elsewhere. alumni.berkeley.edu/california-mag…
Alaska is facing the elimination of tenured jobs, the end of whole programs, extreme contraction of the research mission. All have become commonplace at public universities already. The adjunctification of faculty arose as a direct result of eliminating tenable jobs over time.
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Counterpoint: Knee-jerk criticism of so-called knee-jerk liberalism does far more harm that any of the incidents that Nicholas Kristoff recounts in his column. nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opi…
Kristoff's evidence is limited to the Ronald Sullivan case at Harvard, a single quote from one person (George Yancey) claiming academia was hostile to faith, the revocation of a Cambridge fellowship for JBP (which he was utterly unqualified for), and of course, Oberlin.
Oberlin. Always Oberlin. Why not Liberty? They are equally as representative of the whole of higher education institutions. Why is such shitty thinking allowed on the most influential platform for public ideas in the country?
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John Warner
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Because my brain is strange sometimes, I wrote a short story from the close 3rd person POV of a David Brooks-like character. It contains a theory as to the rationale behind the hiring of a Bret Stephens-like character. I think it may just be true, even though I made it up.
If punditry were a test of accuracy or ability to genuinely illuminate the present, Brooks and Stephens would've been fired for cause long ago. Instead, they have total job security because if they were let go, they'd claim they were victims of the PC mob. What a grift.
So Brooks & Stephens aren't going anywhere, but maybe, just maybe the editors at the Times will read some of these critiques and do their jobs at pushing their contributors to produce better work. I don't have a tone of hope, but the odds are better than them getting fired.
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