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In 6-8 month they will be quietly paid several mil each as a result of judgements or settlements.

HunterTits says

I am not a big fan of tenure anyway.

It is either tenure or much increased professorial salaries in Engineering, Chemistry, Biochem etc. My students get starting salaries at companies on order of 120-150K; starting prof salaries in our neck of woods is 80K or so, and that is after postdoctoral 2-3 years which industrial positions do not require. Possibility of getting tenure accounts for the difference, and even with that, there is a trend for newly hired Assistant profs to quit, after discovering wonders of academia politics.

Of course, for faculty in English/Education/Oppression studies employment outside academia is quite limited.

WRT to OP, these are not isolated incidents. If you don't tow the Current Party Line, you will be deprived of everything.

Marquette (CATHOLIC!!! university) fired prof even though he did not say anything bad about gays. All he did was to say that liberals are inclined to deem views they disagree with as offensive and then use that to shut down debate. He also criticized a student instructor who shut down debate against gay marriage

https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/31/10-crazy-things-inside-professors-lawsuit-marquette-university-firing-defending-free-speech/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-marquette-university-professor-court-decision-20180706-story.html

UNC-Wilmington prof was hounded to point of having to quit, and was subsequently found dead (a variant of clintonicide??? - he was jabbed by gunshot to head)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/24/uncw-professor-mike-adams-retired-tweets-found-dead/5500318002/

He drew backlash in May after tweeting that people who wear masks in public look like "fools," and for calling North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper a "fascist," among other criticisms, for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. He also tweeted that women's studies is a "nonessential major"

Many more examples can be found.

One even made public calls for students to make reports of "discriminatory behavior" in professors to gather dirt.

Sounds like a slam dunk for any lawsuit against the university for this act.

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/fake-gay-and-dieing-of-aids

Say you live in a red state, and your Republican senate has just passed a bill forbidding the land grant university from requiring diversity statements in faculty applications, these being compelled speech, an ideological litmus test, and thus a clear violation of the First Amendment. Problem solved, right? Dissenters can now squeeze into faculty positions, and once again we can enjoy a Diversity of Viewpoints in the Marketplace of Ideas!

Lol. No.

The faculty – who, you must remember, are all very much on board with diversity statements – will simply, and without fanfare, expect applicants to work their statements of faith in the civic religion into their teaching statements, their cover letters, their curricula vitae, and (for bonus points) their research plans. The true believers and the cynical will know to do this without being told. Those who conspicuously fail to do so will simply be denied interviews (there is never any explanation as to why one has not gotten an interview), since the only reason they would fail to rub antisocial injustice all over their applications would be because they are, in fact, dissenters.

That’s not a prediction, by the way. It’s a description of what has happened as red state legislatures have moved to force their state universities to drop diversity statements.

The academy cannot be saved. The rot is too deep. The problem is not a tiny stage 1 melanoma that can be excised with a bit of surgery and a pat on the hand, but a metastatic cancer that has spread to every tissue within the organism. To remove every infected cell would be to remove every cell. To cure the body would be to kill it.

Which is exactly what we should do.

Put the universities out of their misery.

That which is falling, should also be pushed.

Like monasteries isolated from but lavishly supported by the outside world, in which elaborate prayers are chanted only for the ears of the monks, the universities no longer serve any socially useful function. They serve only themselves. The young minds entrusted to them are not sharpened by intellectual training, but dulled by postmodern superstitions, and deranged with deliberately induced schizoid psychoses. Sinecures are provided to charlatans more suitable as janitors. Insofar as there are any talented intellects still within the ivory towers (and there are still a few), those minds are squandered on self-referential nonsense of no benefit and much harm to the species. The universities have become pointless concentrations of financial and intellectual capital locked away from any productive use for reasons that make sense to no one but themselves. They are cysts on the body politic, badly in need of popping.

As Helen Dale suggested, we should take our cue from Henry VIII, and dissolve the monasteries. Confiscate their endowments, cancel their tax breaks, bury them in lawsuits, end the student loan program, let them wither on the vine, and allow their academic and administrative personnel to find their way – or not, and it must be admitted, they mostly would not – on the open market. If we’re feeling merciful, we can throw a few clean needles their way, to enable their fentanyl habits.

The cordyceps that has been chewing its way through the innards of academia for the last few generations has now hollowed it out completely. The fungal parasite’s fruiting body has finally erupted from the host’s brittle and long-empty shell. The host’s behaviour has been disquietingly strange for some time; now, it no longer even resembles the original organism, and it is no longer possible to pretend that there is anything left but the parasite.



You can only trade on the reputation built by previous and better men for so long, before it becomes obvious to all that you are not them. The universities built their reputations because they were the places in which smart people gathered. For a long time, it has been assumed that those at universities must be smart, because they are at universities. I don’t think we’re making that assumption anymore.

This year, it finally became obvious to a great many people that the universities cannot be salvaged, and moreover, are no longer worth salvaging. It’s time for them to be decommissioned and broken down for spare parts.