Either Support Our Politics or Find Another Field
Jan 18, 2017George Leef4 Comments
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The authoritarianism that increasingly characterizes the American professoriate is on full display in a case involving the master’s program in social work at Rhode Island College (RIC). A student who did not believe that lobbying the state legislature for “progressive” causes was properly a part of his education and suffered for it has filed suit against the school in state court.
This remarkable case started way back in 2004 when William Felkner, a graduate student in the college’s social work program, objected to an internship requirement that called for all students to work to “advance social change.” To the faculty, that meant advocating the sorts of “progressive” policies they favor, but the conservative Felkner did not wish to advocate policies he found philosophically repugnant. He therefore accepted instead an internship in the administration of then-governor Donald Carcieri, a Republican.
http://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/01/either-support-politics-find-another-field/
