Subject: RE: Liberal Campuses? Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:36:28 -0600 Message-ID: <B14120EE5C432443B21102F7925DAD02012D3DF5@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Giamati, Claudia M." <GIAMATCM@uwec.edu>
This is particularly important for those individuals who are not yet
tenured or who want to build a good case for promotion! I recall the
reaction of one of my classes to an anti-war comment I made at the
beginning of class last year They jumped on my case, and i was really
surprised!!!. I think my evaluations from that group of students were
in fact a little lower than the other three. I wish I had done a more
careful analysis of those numbers, but for anyone wishing to do a study,
it might reveal some annoying truths to those of us who consider
ourselves liberals!
Dr. Claudia Giamati
Dept. of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Co-Conspirator to make the world a better place
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Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:59 PM
To: Drumm, Daniel L.; EC Justice; Tom Wilson
Subject: Re: Liberal Campuses?
I'm particularly interested in this just now, as I'm 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 we're considering. After all-the nation didn't
VOTE for the "liberal arts" 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 election-not to bring it up directly, but
simply to know their audience . . .
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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> Kate Hinnant
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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
> English
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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
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> 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
> halecl@uwec.edu
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