Christopher Frey
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Living a human life. E.B. McFarlin Chair in Philosophy @utulsa. Lesser half to @jennfrey. https://t.co/EyxEJCTZVD
Tulsa, OK
Joined June 2009
no longer be available to students. 4. At least 5 of the most experienced and beloved honors professors will not be teaching in the college next year. It is important--for students, parents, and the public at large--for the facts to be plainly stated.
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place and now need to find a new director by the summer’s end that will have to do the work of multiple full time employees. 3. The admins' choices led directly to the honors college losing access to major gifts and grants. These gifts and grants funded programs that will 🧵.
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essential to these classes being successful. 2. It is not just the dean position that is gone. There is no longer an assistant dean, a service learning coordinator, a program officer, a director of admissions… The admins made these changes without a succession plan in 🧵.
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So here’s a short thread on why what the admins say they believe cannot be true and why they know that neither academics nor student experiences will “remain the same”. 1. Honors class sizes have already been increased by at least 33%. This vitiates the seminar format that was 🧵
I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power.
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RT @jennfrey: I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that student….
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Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.
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That guy in the lower left looks like he might have a lot to say about Plato.
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basically.
pro tip: you can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you.
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I am, in fact, YOUNGER than my wife. Wisdom has a way of aging one.
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It's all been downhill since we abandoned gladiatorial battles.
The transition from boxing to MMA is a clear cultural decline.
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Shut down classics!.Admins: sure thing.Replace it with “global ancient history”.Admins: no thank you.
Does any discipline outrank Classics in having so many insiders who forthrightly desire to annihilate it?
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RT @jennfrey: Now for some personal news: today is my last day as Dean. I was stunned to be informed by our new provost there will no longe….
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RT @jennfrey: Two years ago, I moved to Tulsa to become the inaugural dean of a new honors college. Then President @bradrcarson convinced….
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The left: We need an effective spokesperson to persuade a majority to support our cause?. Berkeley professor: well once I explain Gramsci, how could anyone not be on board!
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My mom just sent me this photo. The bears are taking over Los Angeles!
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Exactly. I make looking over others’ shoulders and copying their exam answers part of every class so that doing so is not cheating.
@zenahitz OSU has the right idea. Try to make it part of every class so that using AI is not cheating.
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