The Independent Collegian:
UT College Republicans are compiling a list of liberal professors who they claimed have a bias against conservative students.
The list will include professors who students say have let their political views interfere with the way they interact with students in the classroom.
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Have any of you been to Austin, TX? This will make these professors more popular than ever. Austin rocks.
ya think th conservative religious colleges give two hoots about too many biased conservative teachers/???? Leave if you don't like the professors!
It seems to me that this discussion about Liberal profs is from courses in politics, economy, etc. not observational and objectives academic courses like math, biology and chemistry. If you make the leap that many here have that it is about religious differences from scientific content, then I think you are destroying you own position because it does not fit.
More likely, a hypothetical would be... Essay: What should be done about HealthCare?
Answer: Public Option because blah, blah, blah... You get an A
Answer: Private Insurance Reform because Blah, Blah, Blah... You get a B- because it is not well thought out or argued. Please see me after class.
That seems like a problem if it is happening.
Gasp!
There are liberal professors at colleges?
I'm shocked, shocked I say....
Yawn....
To have the audacity to think that we know everything is dangerous, because soon you will think you know enough to tell the other person what to think and believe. Even the laws of nature suprise us from time to time. Why can we not accurately predict the exact path of the next Hurricane, next earthquake, even the next Ice Age or Meltdown? We do not know enough, so keep the discussions in their proper place.
Wow, so much intolerance for religion.
I had a discussion the other day on types of knowledge, including Religious Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge (Cultural and Philosophical were the others).
I am Christian, and I am a Chemist. If I was to have a conversation about the origins of the Earth, I could tell you about the Big Bang, gravitational forces, evolution, etc. But my faith and my belief say different. I can apply the observable laws of nature to create predictable outcomes, I can be precise and accurate, and it is because I can use my brain to figure those things out. However, even the Theory of Relativity is an estimate, it is precise to a point. I can use this because of scientific knowledge.
When it comes to faith and belief, it is not based on rational conclusions, it is simply blind faith. That is why it is religious knowledge. What is the need to reconcile the two, can they not exist as mutually exclusive ideas? What ultimately drives me is this, "All I know is that I KNOW nothing." Can I be sure that Christianity is the right religion? No, I take it on faith. Can I be sure that the physical laws of today will be gauranteed tomorrow? No, it is a given because so far it has been true.
If you know nothing, you're probably not a very good chemist.
You just insulted Socrates. I left that out intentionally to bait an unread Lib ready to pounce on one point in a post and try to denounce it.
Read some more books, will you?
Socrates, "All I know is that I know nothing."
jag97PC
Member Since July 2009
you are also sockpuppet, big suprise there, godboy
Seems like a great idea.
Perhaps all college professors should be rated by their political views - from left-wing liberals to right-wing ultra-conservatives. Are they going to set up a rating system? Run some 360 reviews? Are they going to have the faculty rate each other as well?
Perhaps University of Texas will set up a new program that ensures a quota system not just by race and sex, sexual orientation, religion, and now, by political persuasion? Might as well have full transparency.
No reason for the citizens of Texas, that pay for the University, to worry about academic excellence, research, or teaching skills. That wouldn't seem to satisfy the Texas electorate.
Maybe after Governor Perry is successful with succeeding and setting himself up as Emperor of Texas, they can get right on this. But, they'll probably want to get all the undesirables out first. You know, the Mexicans, African-Americans and Jews.
University of Toledo referenced in this article.
Doh!
ya think Falwells colage would mind the democrats identifying the conservatively biased professor, oh wait, they don't allow the democratic club...
This is a project Liz Cheney started 8 years ago.
No need for a list. If a professor makes any sense, he/she is a liberal.
I am proud to be a liberal and a retired educator--but I never taught how to be a liberal. Students who choose to prove that they are "smarter" than the teacher usually get a reckoning later in life when they can't stop their own questioning of their tightly held beliefs. College is a time to question, to bump up against ideas that may not be your own--on the left and the right.
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Here's a hypothetical situation: Teaching evolution in Introductory Biology. If I ask a student to describe the steps of natural selection, suppose a student leaves the question blank (in keeping with their religious beliefs). I would not give them credit for the lack of a response, and they would get a lower grade. What then? Am I penalizing them for being conservative? Certainly such a hypothetical situation could be formulated in any discipline, and work against liberal views.
I say no, it's not my problem if a student's beliefs conflict with course content.
Will Wilson
religion and reason do not coincide.
"This professor won't teach me what I want to hear! Whaaaaaaa!"
Everyone who has taken a college class had had to deal with someone standing up and trying to out-lecture the professor to the detriment of the rest of the class. Would these self-centered oafs please sit down, shut up, and perhaps learn something? Isn't that the object of going to school? Does the professor really need to accommodate the views of the uneducated at all?
Go ahead and take notes on the professor. Maybe the professors can get together and publish a list of these disruptive students who love to hear themselves talk.
Thank you. Well stated.
I just spoke with some of his professors. He's looking at a lot of D's and E's. Good luck after your graduation.., in 2019!
There is nothing more pathetic than a college Republican.
Oh, that's not true. I am still a 1968 mindset radical, but my daughter, gulp, has become a college Republican. She is very bright and all her Republican friends are really very decent human beings. Of course they are all wrong about politics, but maybe they'll change as they get older and wiser.
I am just curious, is she a creationist?
Schmice, I am afraid that as a 1968 radical, you probaly have more in common with today's Libertarian than with the far left Dems. Either way, your sense of perspective is seldom seen on this site or in many other conversations amongst today's Liberals.
Remember how JFK said he was proud to be a Liberal, well he didn't consider a Liberal to be "someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar."
Obama apologizes for America.
Obama has increased the deficit and national debt to record levels.
Obama took control of private industry, wanted to put strings on federal money to states, and he seeks to centralize utilities, environment, and healthcare.
Is he a "Liberal" JFK would be proud of?
http://www.liberalparty.org/JFKLPAcceptance.html
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First Posted: 08-31-09 04:54 PM | Updated: 08-31-09 05:07 PM