Should professors persuade or present? Classroom neutrality questioned in Colorado
By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project
The article at bottom details how an adjunct professor specializing in queer studies at Colorado Mesa University resigned over a dispute involving classroom neutrality.
I’ll leave it to you to read up on the dispute and come to your own decisions about the facts in the matter. From my take on the article, it seems that there might be something of a disagreement as to exactly what was said and what happened.
I am also open to any civil comment you’d like to add. Please feel free to toss in your two cents on the issue, whether we agree or not.
Again, without saying what the professor here did or didn’t do, let’s examine two different versions of how a class discussion could go.
Contrast the following:
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