[Peace-discuss] Inside Higher Ed on the UI Salaita emails

[ewjohnson via Peace-discuss]

For a very long time "Collegiality" has been the excuse for
the University not dealing with a large number of its ills in
any sort of a genuine way.

"Collegiality" is quite a disingenuous mockery of what a university 
ought to be
and it represents a great betrayal of the public trust.  The University of
Illinois is a public university and it is a Land Grant university and as 
such has first of all a debt of responsibility to the people for whom it 
exists.  Despite the importance of rich patrons who
wish to buy themselves an ideology or buy themselves a renaming of some 
edifice, the
University of Illinois belongs to the people, not to any one donor or 
even a group of them.

Well, fuck whole bunch of collegiality.
And Civility? Well, Fuck you, too.

Collegiality is a poor substitute for real colleagues who challenge you.

And civility is a piss poor sort of substitute for the kind of discourse 
that
examines all sides of a thing.

There are people in Urbana-Champaign that envision a pristine Caspar 
Milquetoast world
that has been Bowdlerized like that of the movie "Demolition Man".

Let's be thankful for those who dare to boldly and cynically point out 
the inconsistencies, the non-sequiturs, and the unmerited meretricious 
that oft constitute if not characterize academia.



On 08/25/2014 09:53 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Inside Higher Ed obtained some of the UI's internal correspondence on 
> the Salaita case, including a major donor threat to pull funding and 
> consultations with University fundraisers on the case. Also contains 
> links to strong blogs on the academic freedom issues raised by Wise's 
> defense of the University's actions.
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> https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/25/u-illinois-officials-defend-decision-deny-job-scholar-documents-show-lobbying
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