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PC proliferation on college campuses (formerly UNC students...)

But who will counsel the conservatives offended by this?

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It sounds like a professor without tenure proved to be more trouble than he was worth after relentlessly criticizing his department and its students.
 
sailordeac said:
the People's Republic of Academia
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Nah, it's the old "don't be a dick to your bosses and colleagues without tenure" rule. The academic job market is crazy right now and NYU is a notoriously bad employer. There is a line of adjuncts around the block who will keep their heads down and be good colleagues ready to take this guy's spot.
 
You may be right. The fellow would be in considerably better company, both morally and intellectually, by hanging out with the homeless on the Bowery, which IIRC is right in the neighborhood.
 
sailordeac said:
You may be right. The fellow would be in considerably better company, both morally and intellectually, by hanging out with the homeless on the Bowery, which IIRC is right in the neighborhood.
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It's not all that close to NYU. Still, this guy sounds like an awful colleague and doesn't really have any job security in the American academy without tenure. Add to that the fact NYU is a private university with a profit oriented administration that has zero tolerance for faculty shenanigans and this guy never stood a chance.
 
sailordeac said:
http://nypost.com/2016/10/30/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-culture-gets-booted-from-classroom/
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“We seek to create a dynamic community that values full participation. Such efforts are not the ‘destruction of academic integrity’ Professor Rectenwald suggests, but rather what make possible our program’s approach to global studies,” they argued.
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That is rich, and the height of irony. "Dynamic community" of only people just like us, and we'll expel anyone different. Oh, and that means no black people, too.
 
awaken, you should respond to the follow up article I posted on that thread.

I'm still not clear on your angle here. Are you actually surprised racism exists?
 
PhDeac said:
awaken, you should respond to the follow up article I posted on that thread.

I'm still not clear on your angle here. Are you actually surprised racism exists?
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I now have replied on the other thread.
 
awaken said:
PC safe spaces used against a prof accusing student of plagiarizing paper
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/professor-leaves-racist-note-students-152912088.html

I don't have an opinion on the charge yet. Looking to others in academia for insight.
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It's easy to find evidence of plagiarism by running papers through a plagiarism detector. It's ridiculous to accuse someone of plagiarism without doing that first. The fact that he seemed to suggest she wouldn't use the word "hence" because it isn't her word is very strange. How would you explain that?
 
PhDeac said:
It's easy to find evidence of plagiarism by running papers through a plagiarism detector. It's ridiculous to accuse someone of plagiarism without doing that first. The fact that he seemed to suggest she wouldn't use the word "hence" because it isn't her word is very strange. How would you explain that?
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A) how do we know he didn't? B) seems to me that teachers/professors get used to a student's prose after reading their work for a while and can spot unusual diction or phrasing
 
ImTheCaptain said:
A) how do we know he didn't? B) seems to me that teachers/professors get used to a student's prose after reading their work for a while and can spot unusual diction or phrasing
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We don't, but the chair read the paper and liked it. Presumably, the chair didn't have the same issues either but that's unclear from the article.

It's weird that nobody has clarified whether or not A happened, but I'd guess not based on the way the comment was phrased.

I don't think B is a good assumption to make, either. Suffolk is a private school and probably has relatively small classes, but most professors are teaching 3-4 classes/semester, teaching really large classes, and/or having their TAs or designated readers grade papers. I'm not sure it's really possible outside of small liberal arts colleges for college professors to get to know students' writing anymore. I may be wrong, but this is a hot take generated as I grade 130 midterms.
 
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