politics

"We hope, in sum, that our findings prompt awareness and action within the academy and without regarding the forces threatening the legitimacy of the college degree. In addition to self-interrogation of our predominantly liberal biases, we encourage faculty to support organizations, such as Heterodox Academy, that promote viewpoint diversity in higher education. Of course, more conservative voices will have their own biases and partial standpoints as well. Yet their virtual absence in higher education today suggests we are far from even approaching ideological parity."

Fuck the Heterodox Academy.

"Viewpoint diversity" as advertised by the Heterodox Academy and their ilk is code for "conservative" students and faculty feeling like they are unable to express their thoughts without fear of humiliation or retaliation by their peers. Of course professors should hold themselves to a certain standard and not just bully students. But they mean they aren't allowed to say controversial or heinous shit, even if they're "just asking questions" without people staring daggers at them or being ostracized. It's a cover organization for the worst elements to infiltrate the university setting under the guise of wanting more nuanced and balanced discussion on certain issues.

The authors suggest that moralizing liberal bias is part of the problem preventing discussion of erosion of academic standards and potential solutions. The rest of what they said makes sense regarding faculty assumptions and perhaps over correction. But part of the solution must be to add conservative voices to the mix? What? Why is ideological parity in that sense even a goal? Why would authors who claim to be Marxists/social democrats promote an organization co-founded by a centrist academic responsible for The Coddling of the American Mind, which suggests that college campuses are full of fearful self-censorship and rabid people waiting for you to perform a microaggression before tearing you down in public?

The paper doesn't even begin to suggest or demonstrate how this would help the issue, since it admits the tendency for conservatives to overstate culture war issues and their prevalence in education.

The other co-founder is part of the fucking Federalist Society.

Does the Heterodox Academy know what it stands for?

EDIT: Oh, the main author is a HxA pervert at Seton Hall.

Keywords: faculty survey, corporatization, student entitlement, grade inflation, academic standards

All those keywords/phrases and none are "tuition inflation" or "for-profit institution".