Over the past 10 years, I have watched in horror as academe set itself up for the existential crisis that has now arrived. Starting around 2014, many disciplines - including my own, English - changed their mission. Professors began to see the traditional values and methods of their fields - such as the careful weighing of evidence and the commitment to shared standards of reasoned argument - as complicit in histories of oppression. As a result, many professors and fields began to reframe their work as a kind of political activism.
- From "We Asked for It": The politicization of research, hiring, and teaching made professors sitting ducks" by Michael W. Clune, in the November 29, 2024, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education
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