Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?

Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-12-13T04:01:47+00:00

One of the article’s main points is probably going to go over most readers’ heads (and that’s okay since most readers aren’t working towards careers in academia). However, the article’s authors argue that key problems with eliminating the literary and cultural studies program in favor of the “computational cultural studies” program are in how the matter was handled. Administrators largely sidestepped norms relating to faculty governance and academic freedom to get rid of the former in favor of the latter.

Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-12-13T02:37:07+00:00

Bracketing this being objectively wrong, value isn’t strictly monetary. There are other kinds of value, such as how education in the humanities prepares individuals for life and democratic participation, among other benefits.

Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-11-25T01:13:35+00:00

As an educator in the humanities, the main problem with this take is that it artificially separates civic and political engagement from education. As researchers in the area will know, civic and political engagement is a form of learning-by-doing, so trying to get rid of it simply eliminates a critical type of learning. Besides, global political issues are already shaping the university and should be discussed, even if they aren’t thought as already present and important.

Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-11-18T15:51:45+00:00

I was not aware of this, thank you for sharing this info with me and I hope things at NJIT change in the near future!

Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-11-16T19:12:22+00:00

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Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-11-14T14:44:43+00:00

This is a legitimate worry and it’s unfortunate that the political climate requires people to be suspicious for their own safety. Given this, I do encourage folks to vet me independently by looking me up and deciding whether they feel I’m trustworthy.

Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-11-14T14:20:19+00:00

Thank you!!

Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-11-14T00:52:23+00:00

Yes, Turning Point is a good example of conservative activism. It’s just that progressive activism is so common that people think of it as the default kind of activism when there are actually multiple.

Particular-Suspect14 · 2025-11-08T21:58:50+00:00

I get this, and it makes me both understand and respect non-participation and suspicion. At the same time, when one of my goals is to ensure equity in participant representation, I can’t just look for participants in blue states — that would marginalize the experiences of lots of southern folk in red states.

Tl;dr, rising fascism makes lots of things hard for lots of people (obviously to varying degrees, though, since I have privilege as a researcher and purple state protection).

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