Graduation Stories

[Dill]

(05-24-2019, 03:18 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Why do we have to imagine, why can't we use what actually happened?

What happened was not in the confines of the classroom, it was not a "walkout" when the decision was made to invite Pence,  it was insolence toward your employer at a public-facing event.

It's great you, Pat, and others know the inner working of the classroom and the educational dynamic in general. The only thing anyone learned on that day is that it is OK (at best) supported (at worst) to defy your organization during a time of celebration because of your personal views

If one partner in a law firm takes on a controversial client prompting another partner to walk out of the room--is the one who walked out "showing insolence to his employer" while "on the clock"?
If an Army E-8 disciplines an E-2 in his unit, how is that framed in military law? Is the E-2 an employee? 

The answer to both questions can be "yes" only when someone cannot view organizations in anything other than the most limited business terms of employer/employee.  Someone answering "yes" would see the same wherever he looked at "what actually happened," though what actually happened cannot be defined independently of institutional mission and regulations.

What "actually happened" in this case happened at a university with shared governance.

What students learned is that one set of university employees can protest bad decisions made by another set of university employees, not "employers," at their own institution. In what you have said so far there is no evidence you value, or even acknowledge/understand, the university's mission to teach engaged critical thinking towards authority--a quality employers generally do not desire in employees.

As point 3 of Taylor's statement on shared governance makes clear, faculty are not simply "employees" who obey "employers,"
Participation of faculty in the governance of the University is a Board of Trustees-delegated right and a responsibility of a scholarly community. Shared governance is essential to sustain and nurture Taylor’s Christian liberal arts academic culture.
Faculty further serve as checks and balances to the board and administration. https://jobs.taylor.edu/faculty/shared-governance.

Great that Pat, I and others know this. Why can't it be great that you know it too? What is blocking the explanation?