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Related: About this forumArkansas governor says professors should be fired if they are 'indoctrinating' students
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said college professors should be fired if they are “indoctrinating” students, echoing rhetoric her former boss President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans have leveled against institutions of higher education.
Sanders, a Republican who served as press secretary for part of Trump’s first term, made the proposal as she delivered her state of the state address for this year’s legislative session.
“Arkansas students go to our colleges and universities to be educated, not to be bombarded with anti-American, historically illiterate woke nonsense,” Sanders told members of the predominantly Republican House and Senate. “We will make it so that any professor, tenured or not, that wastes time indoctrinating our students instead of educating them can be terminated from their job.”
It’s unclear how such a restriction would be enforced. Sanders’ office did not immediately give examples of the types of topics that would be barred under her proposal. Sanders made the vow as part of a plan to improve the state’s higher education system, including changes to its funding formula.
Read more at: https://apnews.com/article/college-professors-huckabee-sanders-woke-34602a9f4d85f551e4f1eb940de0ea7c

no_hypocrisy
(50,945 posts)in Arkansas.
Is his job on the line? I mean The Iliad, The Odyssey, Antigone, and not forgetting Plato's The Republic can be subversive as well as some racy parts. Teaching democracy, etc.
GreenWave
(10,870 posts)Emile
(33,736 posts)sinkingfeeling
(54,806 posts)demolish the U of A.
RazorbackExpat
(436 posts)My name is on two different graduate sidewalks near Old Main.
sinkingfeeling
(54,806 posts)RazorbackExpat
(436 posts)I spent a lot of time at Kimpel Hall and Carnall Hall
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RazorbackExpat
(436 posts)He was an English teacher who was offed by one of his students.
I had him for a translation class back in 1988, I think. I ended up becoming a professional translator, thanks in part to his class.
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