tiggerhawk
Well-Known Member
Anyone so ill-informed and so without a clue as to how decision-making proceeds in major universities in the modern era should NOT be sp foolish as to expose himself near an elementary school, on a downtown street or on the internet.
If you have the least notion of (a) how faculties have long ago become primary discipline-oriented, career-promotion taking dominant preference over institutional loyalties, (b) how personal reputation & achievements shaped grants and other funding more than institutional identity, (c) the extent to which deans have lost their autonomy and ability to function as a buffer between top administrators & faculty, and (d) the declining governance-role of senior, tenured faculty and even the effectiveness of faculty senates, etc---then you would know how improbable it is that the views of the U of TX faculty about academic quality, other such nebulae of prestige would get much of a hearing from the Texas regents who make the decisions.
You don't even have to know how universities function. If you know American politics you understand that decisions about education not only are made in Texas by Texas politicians...but that they don't brook interence from such as teachers, librarians, writers, artists, intellectuals, or anyone else who smacks of fellow-traveling with learning or educated people.
If you have the least notion of (a) how faculties have long ago become primary discipline-oriented, career-promotion taking dominant preference over institutional loyalties, (b) how personal reputation & achievements shaped grants and other funding more than institutional identity, (c) the extent to which deans have lost their autonomy and ability to function as a buffer between top administrators & faculty, and (d) the declining governance-role of senior, tenured faculty and even the effectiveness of faculty senates, etc---then you would know how improbable it is that the views of the U of TX faculty about academic quality, other such nebulae of prestige would get much of a hearing from the Texas regents who make the decisions.
You don't even have to know how universities function. If you know American politics you understand that decisions about education not only are made in Texas by Texas politicians...but that they don't brook interence from such as teachers, librarians, writers, artists, intellectuals, or anyone else who smacks of fellow-traveling with learning or educated people.
