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Actually I did! Oops!!! comradely Gary On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > (This seems fairly significant. PBS is generally deferential to the > wealthy and the powerful but this report is sympathetic to Salaita.) > > In the Salaita case, wealthy donors overrode faculty governance in order > to control faculty hiring. They did this because they vehemently disagreed > with the job candidate’s political beliefs as expressed on Twitter. > Professors in American universities develop their own courses and select > their own curricular materials. So this means that these wealthy donors > exercised direct control over curricular content — what students can and > will learn in the classroom — when they decided who should be hired to > teach at UIUC. > > full: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/think-tenure- > protects-wealthy-donors-less-public-funding-think/ > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary. > maclennan1%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
