When it rains it pours, CDO Sherri Ann Charleston, has apparently been plagiarizing materials her entire career to include copy pasting a study her husband did in 2012
Every liberal arts academic in a position of power has done this. It has been the standard for decades, all while they increase tuition by 500% to make more room for administration positions for these corrupt assholes.
No, I would not say every academic has done this. Certainly the diversity-cultists have inculcated a culture of corruption. Many fields have been utterly corrupted, and may fields were corrupt from day one. "Justice studies," "black studies," "diversity studies," were morally void and corrupt from day one. They are empty by design.
History, English, philosophy, and many others have been infected--badly--but we can still fight back.
I said "every liberal arts discipline" for a reason. We are saying the same thing.
Sociology is just as bad if not worse than the spinoff "____ studies" fields. Psychology around 2010 was starting to move towards STEM and the Bio-Psycho-Social model that was fueled by empirical evidence and rigorous standards. As far as I can tell that has largely fallen by the wayside, as well.
But sitting here and saying "it's not all disciplines" is a farce, because unless we finally start addressing the problem, this is going to become the norm throughout the academy.
There is no penalty for plagiarism if you are in the favor of the powers that be. They will help you plagiarize, sign off on it, and elevate you to do the same thing. You really think that isn't already happening in the medical field? Do we need to repeat 2020-2022 for you to understand?
The same people that said "trust the experts" are the ones who made sure the "experts" were sycophantic lapdogs incapable of independent or critical thinking.
You didn't say "every liberal arts discipline," you said "Every liberal arts academic in a position of power has done this."
I don't disagree that the problem exists in almost every department at the every university and college. What I did say is that many departments (e.g., women's studies, ethnic studies, justice studies, queer studies, etc.) are irredeemable--they are corrupt, rotten, and empty BY DESIGN--many academically solid pursuits, such as history, may yet be saved.
It may indeed take burning everything down to get there..
This may be a controversial opinion around these parts (not with you, I surmise):
I think Philosophy needs to return to the bedrock of education. I am in favor of a true liberal arts education, as it does produce critical and independent thinkers, and that alone lends itself to a diverse range of professions.
But that is not feasible in the current paradigm. It has to be rigorous and there has to be failure.
The problem is not in the disciplines themselves. Sociology is not useless -- in a more sane world sociologists would have been at the forefront of the fatherlessness crisis, instead of egging it on. Human society is inherently complicated and does merit study and inquisition -- but it should be rigorous and empirical and unbiased.
I don't see how where get from where we are to where we need to be without completely starting over. I hope I'm wrong, but -- I think the rot is too deep.
I am 100% on the same page with you. I completely believe in the value of a traditional and true liberal arts education.
I know how I would start the burning down process. Three step process.
First. Leftists love wealth tax. Start tax university endowments based on their value. 1% of all endowments over 1 billion. 2% over 5 billion. 4% over 10 billion. etc
Second. these schools want to pay football coaches millions a year, make tens of millions from ESPN contracts, etc. Great, you are welcome to participate in that environment, but if you choose to do so, you are now a for-profit institution.
Third. Raise interest rates on government backed student loans. Make laws that forbid ever forgiving student loan debt.
Remove universities with low student loan payback rates from being eligible for student loans.
I truly don't think you even need to be punitive. Let these assholes hang themselves:
Though this is an obvious and drastic oversimplification:
Figure out some way to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy. Fuck Joe Biden and this law in particular. In theory signing an affidavit that you are not and will not claim to be a graduate of that program seems to be a good starting point. Logically, people who need their degree will not declare bankruptcy. Doctors and lawyers and other "high debt but high earning" professions would never renounce their degrees, but your sociology, _____ studies, theater, etc majors will en masse.
When that happens, pull the universities in front of Congress and ask them to explain why. They can't, of course, and will embarrass themselves trying. Then the media (presumably less cucked at this point) can run all their smears "tuition up 2000%, ROI down 352%"
At some point the solution becomes clear: do not punish the borrowers, who made mistakes but there are clear reasons why so many young adults were actively pushed into making those mistakes... and do not punish the taxpayers, who never made the mistake in the first place. Punish the universities. Punish the people actually committing the fraud.
From this point we should be on our way to a better situation.
It seems simple, though: ask the universities to explain the increases in tuition while decreasing ROI and... they can't. There is no explanation.
Fuck em. Take their endowments. Maybe we won't make this mistake again.
Critical studies is pseudo-scholarship, or what I like to call "scholarshit." Most if not all citations in this academic grift niche are from the same circle of retards. There is an industry, pointed out decades ago by Camille Paglia, in her great essay "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders": a hermetic circle of critical studies citations in papers used exclusively to gain tenure and to present at schmoozing conferences like the MLA, not to add anything new or even interesting to their batshit crazy, unreadable literature, since they make the same arguments with the same sources over and over again, with small permutations.
It really is simple. Take all of these people who have presented peer-reviewed work and see who they've cited in said works.
See who they've cited cite, maybe do one more layer and then see how long it takes to see they've all cited each other.
See who does the peer reviews and apply the same techniques to their earlier published works.
Inevitable conclusion; a circlejerk of supposed academics who have dug themselves so far into universities, human resource positions and journalism with the big push on governments and finance companies next.
These people are liars and thieves and are only in it for themselves. Despite their supposed comradeship for the cause.
Oh I don't think it's hard because there are nice people all over the South, and there are lots of jobs that are not impossible to do competently. What I haven't met is one without a chip on her shoulder. I guess that's what they mean by microagressions -- even around nice people they will find something to take offense to.
They read the crap these academics put out (filtered through culture if not from the texts directly). Which tells them to be perpetually offended.
So it's like "she's nice but watch out" you know? If you talk like any normal white man, you're bound to say something offensive.
I know one who is actually a good friend, yes. One of the most shockingly hard-working people I know; chick has worked near C-suite level at multiple companies that you have heard of while finishing her PhD and doing tax preparation and real estate (she's a CPA and Realtor's Association member) for friends. And as a side hustle she designs and sells pet carriers.
Now do EVERY diversity officer... hell, every graduate from a "liberal arts" graduate program for the last 10 years.
I personally know people who have a Master's degree who never even WROTE a thesis, let alone plagiarized it. I also know first hand of professors who basically wrote their students' theses just to pass them.
You may think you know how bad it is. You have no idea, because nothing revealed in this article is shocking to the people that did it. They are aware and proud and don't see anything wrong.
That is the problem.
EDIT: for the students who didn't write a thesis, the department offered them a degree so they would leave the phd program, and were transparent it was to "ensure our graduation rate is still 100%"
100% graduation rate in a graduate school. Its a RUBBER STAMP.
I hope some independent body continues to investigate every DIE bureaucrat at Harvard. I'm sure more affirmative action scholarshit would be discovered.
I swear to God they find it easier to put some of the slow ones in captivity rather than try to pick through the haystack for the smart ones. It's like "here's our pet whatever that will say whatever we want -- not come up with inconvenient truths about slavery"
When it rains it pours, CDO Sherri Ann Charleston, has apparently been plagiarizing materials her entire career to include copy pasting a study her husband did in 2012
Every liberal arts academic in a position of power has done this. It has been the standard for decades, all while they increase tuition by 500% to make more room for administration positions for these corrupt assholes.
Seriously, burn the academy down. Start over.
No, I would not say every academic has done this. Certainly the diversity-cultists have inculcated a culture of corruption. Many fields have been utterly corrupted, and may fields were corrupt from day one. "Justice studies," "black studies," "diversity studies," were morally void and corrupt from day one. They are empty by design.
History, English, philosophy, and many others have been infected--badly--but we can still fight back.
I said "every liberal arts discipline" for a reason. We are saying the same thing.
Sociology is just as bad if not worse than the spinoff "____ studies" fields. Psychology around 2010 was starting to move towards STEM and the Bio-Psycho-Social model that was fueled by empirical evidence and rigorous standards. As far as I can tell that has largely fallen by the wayside, as well.
But sitting here and saying "it's not all disciplines" is a farce, because unless we finally start addressing the problem, this is going to become the norm throughout the academy.
There is no penalty for plagiarism if you are in the favor of the powers that be. They will help you plagiarize, sign off on it, and elevate you to do the same thing. You really think that isn't already happening in the medical field? Do we need to repeat 2020-2022 for you to understand?
The same people that said "trust the experts" are the ones who made sure the "experts" were sycophantic lapdogs incapable of independent or critical thinking.
Burn. It. Down.
Salt the earth.
Rebuild it and never forget.
You didn't say "every liberal arts discipline," you said "Every liberal arts academic in a position of power has done this."
I don't disagree that the problem exists in almost every department at the every university and college. What I did say is that many departments (e.g., women's studies, ethnic studies, justice studies, queer studies, etc.) are irredeemable--they are corrupt, rotten, and empty BY DESIGN--many academically solid pursuits, such as history, may yet be saved.
It may indeed take burning everything down to get there..
This may be a controversial opinion around these parts (not with you, I surmise):
I think Philosophy needs to return to the bedrock of education. I am in favor of a true liberal arts education, as it does produce critical and independent thinkers, and that alone lends itself to a diverse range of professions.
But that is not feasible in the current paradigm. It has to be rigorous and there has to be failure.
The problem is not in the disciplines themselves. Sociology is not useless -- in a more sane world sociologists would have been at the forefront of the fatherlessness crisis, instead of egging it on. Human society is inherently complicated and does merit study and inquisition -- but it should be rigorous and empirical and unbiased.
I don't see how where get from where we are to where we need to be without completely starting over. I hope I'm wrong, but -- I think the rot is too deep.
I am 100% on the same page with you. I completely believe in the value of a traditional and true liberal arts education.
I know how I would start the burning down process. Three step process.
First. Leftists love wealth tax. Start tax university endowments based on their value. 1% of all endowments over 1 billion. 2% over 5 billion. 4% over 10 billion. etc
Second. these schools want to pay football coaches millions a year, make tens of millions from ESPN contracts, etc. Great, you are welcome to participate in that environment, but if you choose to do so, you are now a for-profit institution.
Third. Raise interest rates on government backed student loans. Make laws that forbid ever forgiving student loan debt.
Remove universities with low student loan payback rates from being eligible for student loans.
I truly don't think you even need to be punitive. Let these assholes hang themselves:
Though this is an obvious and drastic oversimplification:
Figure out some way to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy. Fuck Joe Biden and this law in particular. In theory signing an affidavit that you are not and will not claim to be a graduate of that program seems to be a good starting point. Logically, people who need their degree will not declare bankruptcy. Doctors and lawyers and other "high debt but high earning" professions would never renounce their degrees, but your sociology, _____ studies, theater, etc majors will en masse.
When that happens, pull the universities in front of Congress and ask them to explain why. They can't, of course, and will embarrass themselves trying. Then the media (presumably less cucked at this point) can run all their smears "tuition up 2000%, ROI down 352%"
At some point the solution becomes clear: do not punish the borrowers, who made mistakes but there are clear reasons why so many young adults were actively pushed into making those mistakes... and do not punish the taxpayers, who never made the mistake in the first place. Punish the universities. Punish the people actually committing the fraud.
From this point we should be on our way to a better situation.
It seems simple, though: ask the universities to explain the increases in tuition while decreasing ROI and... they can't. There is no explanation.
Fuck em. Take their endowments. Maybe we won't make this mistake again.
Critical studies is pseudo-scholarship, or what I like to call "scholarshit." Most if not all citations in this academic grift niche are from the same circle of retards. There is an industry, pointed out decades ago by Camille Paglia, in her great essay "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders": a hermetic circle of critical studies citations in papers used exclusively to gain tenure and to present at schmoozing conferences like the MLA, not to add anything new or even interesting to their batshit crazy, unreadable literature, since they make the same arguments with the same sources over and over again, with small permutations.
It really is simple. Take all of these people who have presented peer-reviewed work and see who they've cited in said works.
See who they've cited cite, maybe do one more layer and then see how long it takes to see they've all cited each other.
See who does the peer reviews and apply the same techniques to their earlier published works.
Inevitable conclusion; a circlejerk of supposed academics who have dug themselves so far into universities, human resource positions and journalism with the big push on governments and finance companies next.
These people are liars and thieves and are only in it for themselves. Despite their supposed comradeship for the cause.
fake job
Has anyone met an American negro woman who was both competent at her job and pleasant to deal with?
I've never.
Oh I don't think it's hard because there are nice people all over the South, and there are lots of jobs that are not impossible to do competently. What I haven't met is one without a chip on her shoulder. I guess that's what they mean by microagressions -- even around nice people they will find something to take offense to.
They read the crap these academics put out (filtered through culture if not from the texts directly). Which tells them to be perpetually offended.
So it's like "she's nice but watch out" you know? If you talk like any normal white man, you're bound to say something offensive.
I know one who is actually a good friend, yes. One of the most shockingly hard-working people I know; chick has worked near C-suite level at multiple companies that you have heard of while finishing her PhD and doing tax preparation and real estate (she's a CPA and Realtor's Association member) for friends. And as a side hustle she designs and sells pet carriers.
But then, her parents also vote Republican.
Now do EVERY diversity officer... hell, every graduate from a "liberal arts" graduate program for the last 10 years.
I personally know people who have a Master's degree who never even WROTE a thesis, let alone plagiarized it. I also know first hand of professors who basically wrote their students' theses just to pass them.
You may think you know how bad it is. You have no idea, because nothing revealed in this article is shocking to the people that did it. They are aware and proud and don't see anything wrong.
That is the problem.
EDIT: for the students who didn't write a thesis, the department offered them a degree so they would leave the phd program, and were transparent it was to "ensure our graduation rate is still 100%"
100% graduation rate in a graduate school. Its a RUBBER STAMP.
She operates on the principle that anything hers is hers, and anything that is his is also hers. Ipso facto, his study is hers QED.
Ok, now someone dig into this and see who he lifted it from.
I hope some independent body continues to investigate every DIE bureaucrat at Harvard. I'm sure more affirmative action scholarshit would be discovered.
I swear to God they find it easier to put some of the slow ones in captivity rather than try to pick through the haystack for the smart ones. It's like "here's our pet whatever that will say whatever we want -- not come up with inconvenient truths about slavery"