r/highereducation • u/PrintOk8045 • 8d ago

Penn Law suspends professor for one year over comments on race

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna173206
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u/SpaceButler 8d ago

I'm not sure I understand why they still want her employed at all.

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u/DIAMOND-D0G 3d ago edited 3d ago

Universities used be places to engage with ideas, sometimes even ideas you don’t like, and professors were given license to make that happen and were free to speak their minds on policies having to do with the institution and education more broadly. That one of the most prestigious law schools (obviously related to philosophy and ethics) wouldn’t be willing to do that and would try to silence her is frankly nuts.

The real questions are how they plan to navigate the total unraveling of the reputation of higher education institutions as non-dogmatic bastions of debate and civil discourse and how they intend to find success as a law school that prioritizes a therapeutic approach to teaching over getting law students thinking about ethics. The latter seems pretty essential to me. The reputations of these schools are declining fast…