re: Harvard University will no longer weigh in on outside public matters

“We’re still a bunch of insane lunatics who hate western civilization, but we’re going to hide it from public view.”

Note that the LSU Faculty Senate recently passed, with near unanimous support, a resolution requiring institutional neutrality on social or political issues. The resolution essentially prevents LSU from taking positions that have nothing to do with the main educational function of the university. The goal is to promote the expression of a wide range of diverse viewpoints from faculty and students without having university units stake out an institutional position.

The key part of the resolution:


“On social and political issues, the instrument of dissent and criticism is the individual faculty member or the individual student. The university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic. The neutrality of the university as an institution arises then not from a lack of courage nor out of indifference or insensitivity. It arises out of respect for free inquiry and the obligation to cherish a diversity of viewpoints. The neutrality of LSU as an institution has its complement in the fullest freedom for its faculty and students as individuals to participate in political action and social discourse. It also finds its complement in the obligation of the university to provide a forum for the most searching and candid discussions of public issues.

Therefore, to empower and protect academic freedom and inquiry for faculty and students, when a social or political issue arises that does not directly concern the academic mission of LSU, leadership at or above the college or school level will not issue a position statement on that issue and will refrain from any other actions that could constrain faculty discourse. When a public issue arises that directly, significantly, and specifically affects the academic mission of LSU, or jeopardizes the culture of academic freedom and inquiry, leadership at or above the college or school level will have the responsibility to articulate the significance of that issue to our campus community.”

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When people vote with the checkbook it is probably the loudest voice.

For a bunch of smart people, they sure are dumb.

Jordan Peterson talks about his teaching days there & said his peers on the faculty back then were all into teaching their specific specialties .But things started changing when the administration started getting more & more involved with what was being taught. In time, according to Peterson, most of the "good" professors got fed up & moved on. The administration started bringing in new, younger teachers who quickly became susceptible to the administration's pressure.

Harvard is a cesspool of communists and liberals. There's NO WAY they can keep their activist traps shut on "outside public matters".

I give them two, three months tops before they are back to spouting their shite.

I used to hold that school in such high esteem.

I couldn’t care less what they’re up to now.

“Mind your own business” — it took them this long to learn that?

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Translation: Saying silly shite has impacted our endowment.

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Rule #1 is to protect the Money

Without the endowment, none of this can happen and we ain’t doing this for free.

The primary institutional reason for existence is to continue the institution’s existence.

Oh and by the way, as leadership there, we still get paid and the perks continue and our egos stroked….