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The Gerst Oasis

By K.C. Johnson

Despite the many problems in contemporary academia, working within the system is almost always preferable to seeking solutions imposed by legislators. A good example of the unintended consequences of outside intervention came a few years ago, when legislatures in several states (Ohio and Florida most prominently) considered an academic bill of rights. Despite the ostensible purpose of the measure?ensuring that extraneous ideological concerns didn?t infect classroom instruction?debate in both states got bogged down by the troubling efforts of Christian conservatives to challenge how science professors were teaching evolution. The legislators, in short, were behaving as far-right versions of the ?diversity? extremists who dominated the Campus Culture Initiative...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on August 24, 2009 (boomark / email).