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No. 2262260
>>2262213Tbh, when you even dare to tell the kids to read a whole 80 pages book they get mad and the coordination tells you to resume the book as much as possible.
I don't get why they're trying to frame this like she's some poor
victim that wasn't allowed to read a book on her own volition, plenty of kids do that.
No. 2262274
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repost from the covid thread, this woman is a university professor
No. 2262337
>>2262213>>2262243Most "elite" schools don't really rely on grading criteria or tests, it's mostly political and nepotistic factors that determine whether a potential student is admitted or denied. The top universities, at least in the USA,
aren't focused on education. It's really just a social club with very limited membership, and that membership is often procured through family connections and business partnerships.
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Interesting thread! Academia is full of cringe. This week our news told that this non-binary disabled university lecturer showed his self-made and self-starred porn to students on a class about power and and performance in a Finnish art university.
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No. 2263015
>>2262927Link to the article:
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/23/shakespeare-made-theatre-too-white-male-cisgender/Let's not be daft, this article is just run-of-the-mill conservative clickbait meant to convince British readers that 'wokism' is going to destroy their culture. From what I've been able to find, the study simply claims that Shakespeare's plays are over-represented in British theater and advocates for the staging of a play by Lyly. The whole "too white, male and cisgender" thing is weird because the field of Shakespearean studies is known for its feminist, queer and postcolonial interpretations, so I suspect the quotes in the article are taken out of context. Maybe I'm wrong, but since the article doesn't link to the study there is no way to verify this (I've tried to look for the study but I couldn't find anything).
The article then features interviews of various conservative personalities, including a Tory MP and an American author (???). Based on the general tone and the insistence on public funding, it's clear that the article was written just to create yet another moral panic and to justify slashing higher education funding.
No. 2263510
>>2262213Reminds me of when I was in undergrad and an acquaintance complained to me about having to write a five page paper. She had never had to write anything longer than two pages in school and was incapable of finding and quoting sources. Just had no idea how to even do that.
She ended up passing the course because the professor died unexpectedly after the semester ended and the school just gave everyone in the class a passing grade.
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>>2263015NTAYRT but. It's not hard at all to figure out what funding this refers to, as it's stated at the bottom of the article. The project is called 'Diverse Alarums' and nothing has been published from it yet but the project is quite clearly delineated on the website of the university and it indeed looks very 'woke' and like a huge waste of money, especially since like you said Shakespeare plays themselves contain lots of plays on gender roles etc. It's just grifting off the government purse like there aren't much better things to spend that much research grant money on. Picrel.
Highly doubt that as they claim on the website this play from the 1500s
>a cast of characters that includes very few cisgender adult males and a plot that builds towards the celebration of a queer and trans marriagebut what do I know? It sounds like a pretty similar plot to a lot of Shakespeare, girls being disguised as boys because they need to for their safety and bla bla, there is a gay plotline though but of course these retards make everything about being 'trans.'
If you read the article you would have seen that the lead on the research project does not seem to agree with your (and my) perception of shakespeare:
>Writing for the website Before Shakespeare, Andy Kesson, the project’s principal investigator, said that “masculinity and nationalism were crucial motivating factors in the rise of Shakespeare as the arbiter of literary greatness” and that “[w]e need to be much, much more suspicious of Shakespeare’s place in contemporary theatre”.Yeah that's clearly not taken out of context, that is very clear and it's in line with what the website for the project says as well which you easily could have looked up. God I'm so tired of people always blaming conservative fearmongering for everything instead of just checking if it is true or not, it takes like 5 minutes max. And of course more 'conservative' people will be interviewed to take issue with this waste of taxpayer money, because leftists would never dare criticize a project that is all about trans and queer and critical race studies! FWIW I have no issue with a group getting funding to stage the play, it's the research aspect and retconning a 16th century play as 'trans queer lit' that I take issue with. They could have just given money for someone who isn't a retarded critical theory academic to stage the play instead and they would be more likely to do it justice in its capacity as a play from the 1500s which apparently was one of Shakespeare's biggest influences instead of using it as an opportunity to shit on Shakespeare and promote a TRA agenda. I think this article is extremely relevant to the thread topic tbh.
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This has potential to be a fun thread
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/allyn-walker-professor-paedophile-virginia-b1960427.htmlThe professor tried to claim transphobia when he got backlash for trying to "destigmatize minor attracted people"
No. 2277066
>>2262213I've had the opposite experience. I'm a junior at an "elite institution" and this semester marks the first time I've ended up reading an entire book for a class. (Plato's Republic)
Have taken plenty of classes up until now with essays and readings but they have all been excerpts, or short texts <30 pages. Maybe profs are obsessed with increasing scope of the class but afraid of backlash for overwhelming workload?
Meanwhile high school english (public) assigned me so many books in full. Stuff I really loved. Maybe senior year they'll pile it on but so far college has been so undemanding and I wouldn't be surprised if it continued. If they're not Harvard they don't expect anything of you ig
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does this count?
No. 2291621
>>2291605Wow okay, that makes sense now. By the way the headline was written I thought it was saying
he was so attractive he had to see a prostitute, I was like why does he have to pay for sex if he's so attractive. What a pest
No. 2293066
>>2292303>one bullet point on second wave feminism: "they did some good stuff but they were terfs"God nona I'm in uni right now (not specifically gendershit but humanities has devolved into that anyway). My female professor did the exact same thing kek. except she said that what they were writing was so horrible and disgusting and mean to the troons, she (a grown woman who is a professor) had to physically rip the book, and could not finish it. Allegedly, this was Dworkin, who has written practically nothing specifically about troons, so she clearly hadn't even begun to read second wave feminists but was so upset at the idea she had to imagine having a temper tantrum and destroying it kek.
Also kinda blogging but our only Feminist Philosophy course is similarly taken by a fucking he/they septum piercing moid.
Another philosophy course is taken by a brony redditor who draws philosophical links on his reddit about doki doki literature club, a high school girl dating simulator (he is in his 30s-40s), and rambles about how le evil feminists bad!
No. 2293465
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>>2292389then this should also count
No. 2293492
I'm doing my bachelors, am in my 30s and I am continuously amazed and horrified by the fact that these 20-somethings cannot read books. This one 23yo dude actually said out loud in all seriousness that he cannot read books, I instantly think he must have some eye condition, but no he just never reads. He whined to our school councelor to get access to the audio book library meant for people with doctor's notes for it. He doesn't have dyslexia, we did screening in our first year for free, he just never reads books, so he never reads for our exams? He is not the only one either, there's at least 3 other men who are loud about not being able to read books, they use A.I for everything or audio books sped up. One day I told someone to look up a term from our 500 page source book and he seriously asked me how was he supposed to just know where that is, he can't read through it all. This school had entrance exams but some people got in with their grades from high school only, so maybe it's that but what the absolute shit is going on.
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>Shoutout to my college profs who told us all that there was about to be a huge wave of job openings as the boomers start to retire, but then as the boomers retired their positions were just eliminated.
>Shoutout to my old coworker who got a PhD so she could stay in academia but then could never get anything but term assistant professor positions, and was now too “overqualified” for other jobs.
>Shoutout to my other coworkers who each relied on their personal combinations of pharmaceuticals, alcohol, and weed to get through the day.
>Shoutout to my last employer who began hiring 10-year term positions so they could minimize the number of researchers qualified for permanent-position benefits.
>Shoutout to the stories of academic fraud across the field, told only after NDAs were signed and cell phones were removed from the room.
>Shoutout to the endless rat race of continually having to prove that you’re worthy to speak, and continually fighting fragile-egoed men who can’t bear the idea of a woman telling him he’s wrong.
As hard as it was to make the decision, I knew it was a good thing to have left academia when watching the beginning of Lessons in Chemistry made my heart race and adrenaline start rushing through my legs. Why didn’t I have enough self-respect to leave sooner?
No. 2293519
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>>2293503It's an "educational tool" to help give people brain damage
No. 2293577
I had a class this semester that was infuriating because the professor was so bad. The head of the department told us that minority professors are subject to more bias in their reviews, but they genuinely fucking sucked. I've been in school for a few years but now I just feel so embittered by the low quality of instruction.
>any instructional project was just free tutorials by a youtuber >professor never shared any of our grades during the entire semester >would just walk around silently or sit at their desk during classes >slides or online posts made by them were ALWAYS filled with grammar errors and typos (it's a fucking design class, how is this acceptable in higher ed) >at the end of the semester they uploaded all of our class designs to their own online portfolio, which IMO is like they're trying to get the credit for everything they had almost no influence in making>>2292303>not to be a drama queen but i feel like some of the shit my professors "taught" me in college was borderline groomingIt is. I know someone whose adult child is an adjunct professor and they posted online about how excited they are whenever they have autistic students on the cusp of trooning out.
No. 2293610
>>2293566fucking KEK
>>2293465I forgot about how hilarious this is, holy kek. How do these people walk to the mailbox without dying?
No. 2293847
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>>2293519topkek they made us do the genderbread persyn at my residential college
>>2293577in my foundational bio classes i had a lot of the same issues. the classes were taken by multiple professors because no one wants to take foundatioinal stem classes (because the professors are there to do research not manage an auditorium of retarded 18 year olds on their phones). but this meant there was zero consistency in teaching from one "module" to the next. the biggest joke of those classes was that they couldn't even be bothered to give us proper lectures/tutorials, we had one "seminar" per week to go over the "online mini lectures" they posted on our lms which universally had godawful sound quality and slides riddled with errors and typos IF an actual professor made one at all, plenty of them just outsourced the whole thing to fucking jove videos they'd embed. they could not have made it more glaringly clear that they had zero interest in teaching the classes.
the worst part is, despite the fact that it was super insulting, i genuinely sympathise with many of them (some were irredeemably shit). the course is so overinflated, and my country is a major exporter of education so id estimate 50% of students in my stem degree were international and the vast majority of them had limited to no english skills. and i hate to say it because it feeds into my country's racial issues but working alongside them proved that they are almost universally HUGE cheats and plagarists. i know of seven international student expulsions on these grounds at my university last year alone.
also when i requested to work with someone else for a group project once because my assigned partner had extremely limited english and kept copypasting from journal articles into our shared document as her contribution (she didnt even delete hyperlink footnotes), i got reprimanded for being racist and lectured on how in industry ill have to work with people "of different backgrounds".
No. 2294264
>>2293980NTA but I would like to see the answers too. From where I attend school one professor said that the recession in the 2000s (and you could probably add the pandemic now) has currently resulted in a drop in enrollment that will continue. Less students = less money, cut programs, and less full-time positions. I've noticed a lot of people getting hired as adjunct professors, so they are paid per semester credits with no job security.
I'm also wondering if there is just a glut of people getting masters/doctorates for niche studies who just expect to be able to be professors or researchers for careers. I don't really
get academic employment and from listening to my coworkers who have pursued masters and doctorates it's like they were just throwing huge amounts of money at higher academia and hoping to get something out of it
No. 2294412
>>2293847I had a professor for a writing/literature class break down to me about the number of international students plagiarizing/cheating on essays. they would pay grad students to write, and it would be so obvious (they have limited English but the paper is written perfectly and also use grad level analysis and concepts). but the schools love international students' wallets.
at another university we would walk into the lecture hall and it would be littered in flyers written in foreign language advertising cheating help basically, it was wild. and yeah that was an entry level stem course
No. 2306522
>>2294204read the name of the rose anon kek. praying for us. god help us.
>>2294412an english professor friend of mine has had the same breakdown to me. hes completely despondent because hes literally not allowed to fail them either, and the university makes it near impossible to investigate plagiarism SPECIFICALLY for these rich international students, if youre a domestic student with the government comping your loans youre held to a much stricter standard.
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anything related to judith butler
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