Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
Eighteen months tops, everybody's gone. The accomplishments you've already achieved will fade away like butter in the sun. In the university world, if you pause for a while, and two or three years later, you say we can start again, you're farther back than you were when the whole enterprise began.
I am in favor of affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights," he responded. "But I do not support abortion rights.
I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
There is no room at all, in the hiring process, which is heavily scripted, for revealing political and religious orientation.
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
What kind of institution do you want UIC to be? One of my colleagues said what they want is a community college on steroids. If that's what the state wants... then what have you been doing for the last ten years?
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