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Jaybird

+ Eventually creating a situation wherein you simply can’t be wrong. Oh, and I absolutely *CAN* be wrong here. All they have to do is not fire [. . .]

Eventually creating a situation wherein you simply can’t be wrong.

Oh, and I absolutely *CAN* be wrong here. All they have to do is not fire her.

Given the vagaries of the news cycle, I can *EASILY* see the attention spans of everybody switching to some new outrageous thing before close of business today (Mountain Time) and Fresno quietly releasing a new Social Media Policy that covers exactly what you can and cannot say (see Fillyjonk's story above).

Heck, we can come back here in a week and you can yell "IN YOUR FACE!" if she's still employed.

And, if she gets fired, you can point to the official statement from the official from the college written on the official letterhead and point out that they talk about the help line but not about anything else so, therefore, I'm wrong. That's all good too.

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23 mins ago

Jaybird

+ Justified? I'm not sure I'd go *THAT* far. If I thought that the point of the university was to promote diverse thought or some of that [. . .]

Justified? I'm not sure I'd go *THAT* far.

If I thought that the point of the university was to promote diverse thought or some of that weird "enlightenment" stuff that was popular in the imagined past, I'd say that her firing was not, absolutely not, justified at all and I'd probably throw in a paragraph about defending scoundrels or something.

I'm not arguing that the outcome is right or good (or "justified") but merely that it follows.

But you have offered little in the way to demonstate why it appears that way to you.

Because it explains the behavior of the university in the modern era?

Do you need me to put together a list of university behaviors and compare some list of theoretical responses that would follow from a handful of mission statements and compare these theoretical behaviors with the actual ones that universities actually did and we can see if the enlightenment thing is better at predicting behavior than the endowment thing?

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29 mins ago

James K

This is a great post Michele, thank you for posting it.

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31 mins ago

Kazzy

+ You started with the premise that it’s a given that Uni’s appear to exist for the sake of their endowment. With the seeming intent [. . .]

You started with the premise that it’s a given that Uni’s appear to exist for the sake of their endowment. With the seeming intent to argue they were justified in firing her because she interfered with their mission.

But you have offered little in the way to demonstate why it appears that way to you. Then layered on all sorts of other assumptions. Eventually creating a situation wherein you simply can’t be wrong. Clever. But nothing more than junk.

It must be frustrating when the world refuses to conform to your priors.

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