tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post4373889095948761806..comments2024-02-11T20:52:16.296-08:00Comments on Remaking the University II: Knowledge Rebellion: In Defense of KnowledgeChris Newfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01078395415386100872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170716682680204889.post-65410723161805296782020-01-12T21:14:42.791-08:002020-01-12T21:14:42.791-08:00I'm so glad the AAUP came out with that statem...I'm so glad the AAUP came out with that statement. I'm curious, though, if academic professionals will see only outsiders as engaged in this attack on knowledge. For I think we've also seen some cases of university faculty and students themselves attacking other faculty members for ideological reasons, opening ourselves up for critique (or, sometimes, ridicule) from the outside and failing to embrace and defend the very view of knowledge that this AAUP statement defends. Look at the students at Evergreen State, wanting a professor fired because he disagreed with the political approach of some campus activists, or the feminist students who filed a Title IX complaint against well-known feminist scholar Laura Kipnis after Kipnis wrote an essay published in Chronicle of Higher Ed, or the professor at Wilfred Laurier University who bullied a grad student instructor because he she appeared to be challenging the party line on a gender issue. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com