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pennswoodsHow would you feel if you learned that the US government had been tracking your work email for the past several years? How would this affect what you put into emails?
Now imagine your work is professor at a private university and it is not just your university email account that is being tracked but also the accounts of many other senior faculty with positions of power and influence like president of the faculty senate which are being watched and tracked? How would this affect what you put into emails and say publicly?
Now imagine you also happen to be an under-represented minority who specifically does work in things that involve culturally responsive pedagogy, critical race theory and other things that are being banned in certain states? How might this affect how you work?
And also, your university's president was required to testify before Congress, because the university was one of several being investigated for antisemitism, and then shortly afterwards resigned.
How might that affect what you say and or write or teach or do, including in response to ongoing student protests?
These are all based on a conversations I had with a senior scholar last week, a savvy academic who manages to do a lot while staying out of the limelight.
Now imagine your work is professor at a private university and it is not just your university email account that is being tracked but also the accounts of many other senior faculty with positions of power and influence like president of the faculty senate which are being watched and tracked? How would this affect what you put into emails and say publicly?
Now imagine you also happen to be an under-represented minority who specifically does work in things that involve culturally responsive pedagogy, critical race theory and other things that are being banned in certain states? How might this affect how you work?
And also, your university's president was required to testify before Congress, because the university was one of several being investigated for antisemitism, and then shortly afterwards resigned.
How might that affect what you say and or write or teach or do, including in response to ongoing student protests?
These are all based on a conversations I had with a senior scholar last week, a savvy academic who manages to do a lot while staying out of the limelight.
