Graduation Stories

[Dill]

(05-21-2019, 02:26 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: What happened to leading by example and teaching "tolerance" of others view points that you disagree with?

I believe the professors should be punished as well, this is a school function and they are representatives of their school.

This was not a political rally (where they have the right to protest), it was a graduation ceremony. Not a place for a protest of any kind, they're actions ruined the ceremony for others when this is supposed to be a very important day.

Disciplining faculty for a mild protest certainly teaches something, but it is not tolerance of others' view points.

And on the issue of "representation" here--if these "employees" should be representing the school, then who is "the school"?

Do you think it is the administration? The board of directors?

The ideal of the modern university makes faculty, and the faculty student relation, the essence of the university. It is the faculty, not the administrators, who know Chemistry, History, Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, literature, Art and how to teach these subjects.

It is the faculty who decide who to hire, who is qualified, and who is not doing his/her job--not the administration. It is the faculty who decide what counts as "education" and which students meet the standard.  In a good university, the "employees" run the firm. The administrators simply manage a platform which allows educators to educate. Disturbing that over the last four decades, so much power has shifted to administration, and the so much of the public is fine with that.

Pence went to a football game so he could walk out when players protested. Faculty certainly have the same right to do so at THEIR university, on their own turf. Ok to spoil graduation for those who dislike the homophobic Pence by inviting him to speak, but not ok to spoil it for Pence supporters?