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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

You gotta read the footnotes, man

Yea yea I know. Just sharing it because I saw it and all this shit makes me sad.

 

4 hours ago, chainsaw said:

Hard to get a read on most of these profs.

Regnerus has some bad controversy with him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Regnerus

Byrd seems like a great person in speech pathology:
https://slhs.utexas.edu/faculty/courtney-byrd
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mFlr9qYAAAAJ

Keffrelyn Brown
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=baDnSoIAAAAJ&hl=en

There is a petition on there, but I'm honestly kind of nervous to sign it. What if they like take my utexas email away or something. :(

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Sheridan Titman is the highest paid employee at UT not in athletics.
I can't believe they're sticking him on a committee.

He also hates these roles to the point that he purposefully does a bad job so that nobody will ask him to serve a second time. I heard him say that once in person and he was the only one who didn’t laugh uncomfortably. When he was chair the second time he never moved out of his other office because he anticipated not serving the full term.
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Sheridan Titman is the highest paid employee at UT not in athletics.
I can't believe they're sticking him on a committee.

There are a few others who receive some of their pay through the foundation so it doesn’t publicly show how much “UT” is paying them. But I think the same is true for ST so he’s probably still the highest paid non-athletics.
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7 minutes ago, 4th_and_18 said:


He also hates these roles to the point that he purposefully does a bad job so that nobody will ask him to serve a second time. I heard him say that once in person and he was the only one who didn’t laugh uncomfortably. When he was chair the second time he never moved out of his other office because he anticipated not serving the full term.

I was visiting when he was acting chair when Laura moved to Dean (?).  He never said a word to me.  (When Hartzell was chair, he invited me to lunch on day 1.)  Someone else told me to talk to Regina if I had any problems.

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2 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

I know Kefferlyn Brown.  She’d be quite welcome on this board. I assure you she’s not right wing. 

Same with Rich Reddick in COE. I was a part of his grad program a decade ago. He's great, but feel like the teeth of that program have been filed down since he left. I'm not sure how much influence they'll have on anything in this committee. 

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1 hour ago, BurdineBandit said:

Same with Rich Reddick in COE. I was a part of his grad program a decade ago. He's great, but feel like the teeth of that program have been filed down since he left. I'm not sure how much influence they'll have on anything in this committee. 

Didn’t see he was on it.  That’s great. 

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50 minutes ago, Reese Bennett said:

Curious that there is not one US History professor. You'd think that would be a good perspective to have on a committee like this, right?

Public academic institutions, from grade school on up, stopped giving a shit about history at least two decades ago.

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10 minutes ago, Chopper said:

MIT deftly turned the tables on the administration's rhetoric

 

Good to see that what is probably one of the least or less political institutions, and probably conservative, but not in the GOP conservative sense, do this.

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What's embarrassing to me almost as much as the acceptance of the compact is the immediate acceptance of the compact.  MIT says its bit, and obviously I like their response, but even if it went the other way I'd at least be able to assume they sat and thought about it and weighed pros and cons.  It never occurred to us to even think.  We just act and make it clear the politicization is the goal.

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1 hour ago, ImNotMarkinson said:

What's embarrassing to me almost as much as the acceptance of the compact is the immediate acceptance of the compact.  MIT says its bit, and obviously I like their response, but even if it went the other way I'd at least be able to assume they sat and thought about it and weighed pros and cons.  It never occurred to us to even think.  We just act and make it clear the politicization is the goal.

I'm not convinced that there's any real merit for UT to enthusiastically reject it.  If it were up to me (particularly since Abbot isn't going to stand up to Trump), probably the right play is to make public a somewhat tepid statement of support and then proceed with business as usual.  

Protecting Higher Ed intellectual diversity or independence is like #75 on my list of priorities in the face of an increasingly authoritarian executive.  

Also, reading Marc Rowan's op-ed in the NY Times today was a good reminder that the problem truly is as simple as "billionaires are bad".   

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Virginia Senate tells UVA it will face state funding issues if they comply.

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The Virginia Senate sent a letter Tuesday to Interim University President Paul Mahoney and Board of Visitors Rector Rachel Sheridan relaying its “grave concern” regarding a Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education which the University received last week. The letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the Commonwealth will work to negatively impact the University’s funding. 

“This is not a partnership,” the letter reads. “It is, as other university leaders have aptly described, political extortion.”

 

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The senators’ letter also says that beyond the Compact’s “assault” on the University's autonomy, they believe the Compact is filled with contradictions. They highlighted that the document calls for both academic freedom and an uninhibited flow of ideas alongside a termination of “belittling” treatment to conservative viewpoints. The letter said that requirements of viewpoint diversity and restricting such belittlement are too subjective to reasonably enforce.

Additionally, the letter said that the Compact’s provisions regarding holistic admissions and hiring decisions would harm the University, as would prohibiting faculty to speak on “matters of societal importance.”

 

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“The principle remains clear: decisions about the University’s academic policies, admissions standards and institutional values belong to the University and the Commonwealth — not to federal bureaucrats pursuing a political agenda,” the letter reads. “We must now draw a firmer line … [we] will not stand by while the University surrenders its independence through this compact.”

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/10/virginia-senate-leaders-express-unequivocal-opposition-to-compact

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