I’m sure it’s a complete coincidence that the only two departments scheduled for elimination are chaired by the only two people who, constantly and consistently, oppose DEI measures.
Also, not a department but a program in Music is being eliminated. It must be an equal coincidence that it is directed by the strongest defender of labor rights on campus.
The three of us are the loudest opponents of the administration at the university. It’s impossible to persecute us individually because one is an immigrant, another a Muslim, and the third a lesbian. So our positions are made redundant.
Again, a total coincidence.
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It is sad that the admin is willing to sacrifice the institution to get revenge on individuals. But perhaps running the institution into the ground has the side-benefit of covering their tracks, in any future investigation into where the money went.
This also happens in the private sector. The startup my sibling worked for was pirated in this manner. Original CEO took leave to have a baby. Temporary CEO re-routed most company resources into engineering, to work on projects which my sibling and others questioned… in what way were these projects useful to the company? Next thing anybody knew, the company was bankrupt, the doors locked, the furniture auctioned off… and all the engineers were working for temp CEO’s *new* startup which happened to be much more in line with what the engineers had been working on at the old company, under his direction.
Non-engineer ex-employees, gathering at the bar to exchange contact info and share scuttlebutt, noted that in subsequent job interviews, when they mentioned the name of the Pirate Captain who’d sunk their old company (without saying what he’d done), interviewers visibly recoiled. The guy had a reputation.
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“willing to sacrifice the institution to get revenge on individuals”
The thing is… I don’t think it’s revenge (in their minds). I bet they think of it as improving the institution by getting rid of wrongthink and have convinced themselves that ideological unanimity is the key to prosperity.
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Smart people are very, very good at self-justification. It’s likely they’ve convinced themselves of all these things: not many bad people tell themselves the truth about the evil they are doing.
That doesn’t make it not-evil.
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Without a doubt. The administration has this new saying it rolls out at every opportunity. “Change is hard.” Like it’s our psychological hangup that we are opposing “change.” I’m so sick of the word “change”, I can’t tell you. Any change is assumed to be good. So are growth and choice.
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Demand an audit.
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Oh yes. We hired a forensic accountant who will take this Chancellor’s budget apart piece by piece.
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Excellent!
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Honestly you guys need a 30 year old proverb from software development. Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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Military thinking: the first instance can be an accident, the second a coincidence, but a third is an act of war ;-D
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