Seth Masket: 'If you were to make a list of the United States’ most significant contributions to the world, our public university systems would have to be somewhere near the top.' - NBCNewsTHINK
. It’s not hard to guess who will be blamed for teaching these sorts of lessons, and who will more readily be fired or silenced as a result.
Faculty diversity has not increased as quickly but it has increased, and schools are increasingly prioritizing it. One of the remarkable features of higher education in America is that, for all its problems and increasing costs, it is educating a larger andof young people than ever before. And while college was once largely a way for the upper classes to perpetuate themselves, today there is an increased focus on bringing in. Faculty diversity has not increased as quickly but it has increased, and schools are increasingly prioritizing it.
What Patrick is doing could help reverse these trends. It’s an attempt to whiten public universities by driving out or silencing faculty of color and their allies. And no, I’m not inserting race into a discussion of tenure — Patrick already did that, overtly, in his statement.
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