Read this article, which is about how members of the Georgia Congress are attempting to oust professors who teach queer theory at Georgia State University.
Here are some quote highlights:
"This is not considered higher education," Byrd said. "If legislators are going to dole out the dollars, we should have a say-so in where they go."
Calvin Hill, another State Representative, took issue with the University of Georgia's graduate program on queer theory. "Our job is to educate our people in sciences, business, math," said Hill, a vice chairman of the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee.
In response to the last quotation, one wonders: does this mean that teaching subjects outside the purview of "sciences, business, [and] math"--entire academic fields like writing, literature, classics, modern languages, history, philosophy, art, sociology, and psychology, just to name a few--are not within the scope of higher education? That might be an unfair question, but one wonders if Calvin Hill would have campaigned against gender or race studies ten years ago.
But another question this raises: does this mean if lawmakers decide some of these subjects should not be taught, they will yank funding from state schools?
Dr. Claire Potter over at the blog Tenured Radical discusses some of the implications of this issue.
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