Students are paying (going into debt) to the tune of $22,000 per year to receive wisdom from learned scholars such as this woman:
An assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University argues in a recent academic research paper that eastern fox squirrels are subjected to a “gendered, racialized, and speciesist” form of media bias.
Teresa Lloro-Bidart, an associate professor of liberal studies at Cal Poly, argues in a recently published postmodernist research paper that eastern fox squirrels are on the receiving end of racially-charged media bias. Lloro-Bidart claims that she worked towards such a conclusion by analyzing the coverage of eastern fox squirrels through “feminist posthumanist,” and “feminist food studies” lenses.
What is it with women with hypens in their names? Why are they always so often nuts? (No offense to the racially marginalized squirrels.)
Update: Ace found an academic who has written a scholarly treatise about … I am not making this up… talking to an imaginary ghost of himself.
Most universities (all?) require tenured and tenure-candidates to “publish” every year — or be terminated or disciplined. …Publish or Perish!
While the medical and scientific types occasionally-resort to faking data or outright plagarism, those of a more-wordy-bent generate search-engine gibberish or simply to “creative writing” to get their Dept. Chairman off their backs.
– And they get accepted.
– And they get published.
And, they get promoted to full Professor. …Even to Departmental Chair*, or Dean.
( * – Some of my best friends are lumps of furniture. **snert** )
Their degrees will be worthless. So many young people are so clueless about it.
that’s higher education folks!
“Feminists are the girl commies”. Truer words never spoken.
It’s my personal policy to not address anyone with a hyphenated surname by calling them by name. It’s not so much snobbery on my part as caution against not being able to speak their precious names without laughing. Because they’re so important.
“associate professor of liberal studies at Cal Poly”; considering that the Cal Poly student body consists mostly of Type A techno-geeks, I suspect liberal studies classes are not well attended. Even if the class is mandatory, read the syllabus, get notes from previous classes, take the tests, use class time for more important endeavors.
Why is Cal Poly bothering with liberal/liberal arts crap?
We spend way too much on “education”. They’ve run out of useful things to spend money on so now they just throw money at anything that moves.
If CA legislators had any brains, they’d be cutting funds for this nonsense. That goes for the other 56 states.
Charging Rino is correct. Qualification for tenure is measured at least in part by publications. Therefore, there is a need to publish, and a market has risen to fill that need. Result – MOST academic publications are worthless drivel, even in STEM (my own field). It’s far worse in the “soft” fields where there are incestuous circles of authors that cite each others works to get their numbers up in the “citation index,” which is another measure of qualification for tenure. I saw one publication that did an analysis of such circles and found a group of twenty or so authors who extensively cited one another, but weren’t cited by anyone else at all outside their circle. Their field was something ridiculous like “feminist allusions in early Shakespeare” or something like that. So research and publication can be fun, too!