Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:59:01 -0600 Subject: Re: Liberal Campuses? From: Kate Hale <halecl@uwec.edu> Message-ID: <BDD4C215.E6A%halecl@uwec.edu>
Iım particularly interested in this just now, as Iım serving on a UW System
advisory group on the liberal arts. Part of the initiative is for the
various campuses to advocate for the liberal arts/liberal education with
their constituents/communities. I pointed out at our last meeting (post
11/2) that the election outcome had strong implications for what weıre
considering. After allthe nation didnıt VOTE for the ³liberal arts²
candidate. How do we expect to be heard? I think the individual campus
groups need to be aware of how the counties around them voted in the
electionnot to bring it up directly, but simply to know their audience . .
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I welcome ideas and comments from SFPJ members, either to the list or to me
privately.
Thanks--
Kate Hale
English
On 12/2/04 12:52 PM, "Drumm, Daniel L." <DRUMM@uwec.edu> wrote:
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> Conservatives and the trailing media frame this as an accusation.
> "Liberal" is assumed to be a dirty word. Just like McCarthy calling
> academics communists. Increasingly, the conservative agenda is to frame
> the debate so that the opposition is in a loose / loose situation. If
> we point out the flaws in the study, then we are seen as backing away
> from the term liberal and lending support the "dirty word" notion.
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> I think, or hope, that most academics are liberal. I think the proper
> response is to agree with the accusation and point out that more
> educated people are often more liberal.
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> Media Matters has a piece on the recent "liberal campuses" statistics
> put out by the American Enterprise Institute, including links to the
> study and a rebuttal of the study:
> http://mediamatters.org/items/200411290005
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> http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1201-31.htm
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> Below is the opening of an article from Common Dreams, originally from
> today's Star-Tribune. I think this bears discussion--perhaps when SFPJ
> meets again? The URL will take you to the complete article.
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> Kate Hale
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> Nothing Sinister About Liberal Campuses
> by Steven Lubet
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> Conservative activists are on the march, determined to expose hotbeds of
> liberal influence wherever they find (or even suspect) them. Their
> latest target is higher education, one of the few corners of American
> life where liberal ideas still hold sway.
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> Indeed several recent studies have confirmed that Democrats greatly
> outnumber Republicans -- by ratios as much as 7-1 -- on many university
> faculties. This revelation has caused outrage in conservative quarters,
> where it is seen as evidence of liberal manipulation, and worse.
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> C. Kate Hale, Ph.D.
> UWEC Dept. of English
> Office: 617 Hibbard Hall
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