11-10-2016, 05:30 PM
rherold9 Wrote:WRXtranceformed Wrote:Interesting take on the potential necessity of "political diversity" in college faculty and ideology:
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How does one make political diversity in college? Not hire people based off political views? It's not like professors push their views on people and they aren't supposed to.
Yeah you know, I can acknowledge this as a problem but I've got no real idea how to solve it. Even if you dont' push your views directly, your belief systems color the things you teach (or don't teach) and that's not wrong or bad, it's just the way it is. But I've seen how professors with...unpopular views struggle to get employment and tenure, despite being supremely qualified because they don't fall lockstep with "the culture of the university". Some universities are definitely worse than others, and to some degree higher ed is always going to be more "ivory-tower-y" than the genpop.
But some diversity in viewpoint would definitely be welcome, in my opinion (worth what you paid for it.)
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