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It’s not the job of faculty to enforce political will.

The university can have policies promoting one thing over another, but to encumber faculty members with that responsibility is a bit beside the point of being an educator.

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I agree, but it's so very interesting that when a similar sort of loyalty oath was used even when I was in grad school 25 years ago to enforce loyalty to the state government at Penn State University (as a condition for receiving my poverty-level grad student stipend), it was A-OK with the same sort of people complaining about this right now when it's focused on a more progressive ideology.

But I agree it's absolutely absurd no matter who's pushing these. And all it amounts to is ideological theatre on both sides of the fence. And I don't think that theatre is going to close during my lifetime.

The universities are trying to make it the faculty's job to enforce political will.

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