"Back in December, I wrote a post titled " What Are We Even Doing Here? " in which I discussed some of the head-scratching moves among some higher ed institutions, moves that seemed so at odds with the purported mission of higher ed that you couldn't help but wonder if these schools were just planning on punting on the mission altogether."
"I didn't plan on this being a series, but in perusing Inside Higher Ed 's news stories on a daily basis-as I do-my frequent reaction to some of these stories is, "That's nuts!" "Nuts" as in cuckoo, bonkers, batshit, the kind of thing that if we pause and think for even a moment is entirely inconsistent with colleges and universities doing the work most of us believe they're meant to do."
"The sheer number of these insults to common sense has the potential to numb us to how nuts these things are, but I'm here to say, this stuff is nuts! "Florida Introduces 'Sanitized' Sociology Textbook," by Kathryn Palmer As part of Ron DeSantis's war on diversity, faculty at Florida International University are required to adopt an open-source textbook that "now makes only cursory mentions of important sociological concepts regarding race, gender, sexuality and other topics that have drawn Republican ire.""
Some colleges and universities are making decisions that contradict higher education's mission and erode common-sense academic standards. Frequent news accounts provoke disbelief and label many actions as extreme because they prioritize political demands over scholarly integrity. One case shows Florida faculty adopting an open-source sociology textbook that minimizes discussion of race, gender, sexuality, and other contested topics to satisfy political requirements. That textbook emerged from a statewide working group intended to pass political muster and prevent removal of sociology as a general education requirement. Accommodation to political pressure produced a diluted curriculum and reveals how concessions invite further encroachments.
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