Professor Shaista Aziz Patel's ETHN 100A — a mandatory course in the ethnic studies program — frames Israel as "genocidal" and encourages students to "defeat the surveillance regime" of UC San Diego
The kids would be better educated by a literal clown. If there’s one thing I don’t respect, it’s a PhD in social justice education. She should try her shtick in Pakistan, lots of rapes for her to deny there.
Defunding academia and shutting the door to foreign students is not the answer.
At the same institution, UCSD, there are many faculty that not only do not espouse those views, but they find deplorable, if not downright offensive. Those in STEM fields are most affected by federal government cuts, which almost never affect those in Ethnic Studies departments (they do not run research labs that develop new technologies and meds). I know first hand: I am a Prof of Physics at UCSD (and, yes, Jewish).
A similar comment regarding students: many excellent students come from abroad to study technical fields where the US (barely) maintains an edge, mostly coming from East Asia or Europe. These students are rarely involved in demonstrations nor are they activists.
It is easy to overreact and throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The kids would be better educated by a literal clown. If there’s one thing I don’t respect, it’s a PhD in social justice education. She should try her shtick in Pakistan, lots of rapes for her to deny there.
Defunding academia and shutting the door to foreign students is not the answer.
At the same institution, UCSD, there are many faculty that not only do not espouse those views, but they find deplorable, if not downright offensive. Those in STEM fields are most affected by federal government cuts, which almost never affect those in Ethnic Studies departments (they do not run research labs that develop new technologies and meds). I know first hand: I am a Prof of Physics at UCSD (and, yes, Jewish).
A similar comment regarding students: many excellent students come from abroad to study technical fields where the US (barely) maintains an edge, mostly coming from East Asia or Europe. These students are rarely involved in demonstrations nor are they activists.
It is easy to overreact and throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Defund academia and pulls the plugs on all of academia’s foreign-student-visa cash machines.