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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

You gotta read the footnotes, man

Yea yea I know. Just sharing it because I saw it and all this shit makes me sad.

 

4 hours ago, chainsaw said:

Hard to get a read on most of these profs.

Regnerus has some bad controversy with him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Regnerus

Byrd seems like a great person in speech pathology:
https://slhs.utexas.edu/faculty/courtney-byrd
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mFlr9qYAAAAJ

Keffrelyn Brown
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=baDnSoIAAAAJ&hl=en

There is a petition on there, but I'm honestly kind of nervous to sign it. What if they like take my utexas email away or something. :(

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  • Chad Fuck
    Chad Fuck

    A friend asked for my script.  Here's what I told the lady: I am a graduate of the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Law.  I view this letter as extortion of the University.  It is an unc

  • SuingToGetAMessageBoard?
    SuingToGetAMessageBoard?

    They must have banned grade inflation in every class I took. 

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    Your summarization is incomplete and the devil is in the details. Here is the full text of the compact: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/4059a5dd-f3dc-4cf6-bf1f-9e0d98c2f8d9.pdf?itid=lk_inlin

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13 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

We know him.

There are few more closeted people on the planet.

This guy?

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Nowai.

That dude's facial hair is Velcro based isn't it

25 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

I know Kefferlyn Brown.  She’d be quite welcome on this board. I assure you she’s not right wing. 

I’m amazed that all of her departments haven’t been cut.

Sheridan Titman is the highest paid employee at UT not in athletics.

I can't believe they're sticking him on a committee.

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59 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Sheridan Titman is the highest paid employee at UT not in athletics.

I can't believe they're sticking him on a committee.

Was Theodore Assman not available?

 

1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

Sheridan Titman is the highest paid employee at UT not in athletics.

I can't believe they're sticking him on a committee.

 

abbott puppet 

Sheridan Titman is the highest paid employee at UT not in athletics.
I can't believe they're sticking him on a committee.

He also hates these roles to the point that he purposefully does a bad job so that nobody will ask him to serve a second time. I heard him say that once in person and he was the only one who didn’t laugh uncomfortably. When he was chair the second time he never moved out of his other office because he anticipated not serving the full term.
Sheridan Titman is the highest paid employee at UT not in athletics.
I can't believe they're sticking him on a committee.

There are a few others who receive some of their pay through the foundation so it doesn’t publicly show how much “UT” is paying them. But I think the same is true for ST so he’s probably still the highest paid non-athletics.
7 minutes ago, 4th_and_18 said:


He also hates these roles to the point that he purposefully does a bad job so that nobody will ask him to serve a second time. I heard him say that once in person and he was the only one who didn’t laugh uncomfortably. When he was chair the second time he never moved out of his other office because he anticipated not serving the full term.

I was visiting when he was acting chair when Laura moved to Dean (?).  He never said a word to me.  (When Hartzell was chair, he invited me to lunch on day 1.)  Someone else told me to talk to Regina if I had any problems.

2 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

I know Kefferlyn Brown.  She’d be quite welcome on this board. I assure you she’s not right wing. 

Same with Rich Reddick in COE. I was a part of his grad program a decade ago. He's great, but feel like the teeth of that program have been filed down since he left. I'm not sure how much influence they'll have on anything in this committee. 

1 hour ago, BurdineBandit said:

Same with Rich Reddick in COE. I was a part of his grad program a decade ago. He's great, but feel like the teeth of that program have been filed down since he left. I'm not sure how much influence they'll have on anything in this committee. 

Didn’t see he was on it.  That’s great. 

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Curious that there is not one US History professor. You'd think that would be a good perspective to have on a committee like this, right?

50 minutes ago, Reese Bennett said:

Curious that there is not one US History professor. You'd think that would be a good perspective to have on a committee like this, right?

Public academic institutions, from grade school on up, stopped giving a shit about history at least two decades ago.

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MIT deftly turned the tables on the administration's rhetoric

 

10 minutes ago, Chopper said:

MIT deftly turned the tables on the administration's rhetoric

 

Good to see that what is probably one of the least or less political institutions, and probably conservative, but not in the GOP conservative sense, do this.

What's embarrassing to me almost as much as the acceptance of the compact is the immediate acceptance of the compact.  MIT says its bit, and obviously I like their response, but even if it went the other way I'd at least be able to assume they sat and thought about it and weighed pros and cons.  It never occurred to us to even think.  We just act and make it clear the politicization is the goal.

1 hour ago, ImNotMarkinson said:

What's embarrassing to me almost as much as the acceptance of the compact is the immediate acceptance of the compact.  MIT says its bit, and obviously I like their response, but even if it went the other way I'd at least be able to assume they sat and thought about it and weighed pros and cons.  It never occurred to us to even think.  We just act and make it clear the politicization is the goal.

I'm not convinced that there's any real merit for UT to enthusiastically reject it.  If it were up to me (particularly since Abbot isn't going to stand up to Trump), probably the right play is to make public a somewhat tepid statement of support and then proceed with business as usual.  

Protecting Higher Ed intellectual diversity or independence is like #75 on my list of priorities in the face of an increasingly authoritarian executive.  

Also, reading Marc Rowan's op-ed in the NY Times today was a good reminder that the problem truly is as simple as "billionaires are bad".   

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24 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

Abbot isn't going to stand up to Trump

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Virginia Senate tells UVA it will face state funding issues if they comply.

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The Virginia Senate sent a letter Tuesday to Interim University President Paul Mahoney and Board of Visitors Rector Rachel Sheridan relaying its “grave concern” regarding a Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education which the University received last week. The letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the Commonwealth will work to negatively impact the University’s funding. 

“This is not a partnership,” the letter reads. “It is, as other university leaders have aptly described, political extortion.”

 

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The senators’ letter also says that beyond the Compact’s “assault” on the University's autonomy, they believe the Compact is filled with contradictions. They highlighted that the document calls for both academic freedom and an uninhibited flow of ideas alongside a termination of “belittling” treatment to conservative viewpoints. The letter said that requirements of viewpoint diversity and restricting such belittlement are too subjective to reasonably enforce.

Additionally, the letter said that the Compact’s provisions regarding holistic admissions and hiring decisions would harm the University, as would prohibiting faculty to speak on “matters of societal importance.”

 

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“The principle remains clear: decisions about the University’s academic policies, admissions standards and institutional values belong to the University and the Commonwealth — not to federal bureaucrats pursuing a political agenda,” the letter reads. “We must now draw a firmer line … [we] will not stand by while the University surrenders its independence through this compact.”

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/10/virginia-senate-leaders-express-unequivocal-opposition-to-compact

Given that UT was modeled on UVa, at least insofar as the use of colleges, we should follow suit.

 

Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate is having on education, according to a new survey by the American Association of Professors.

 

1 hour ago, Chopper said:

 

 

Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate is having on education, according to a new survey by the American Association of Professors.

 

 

exactly what abbott and patrick want. does liberty U have phd programs ? (accredited) 

On 10/11/2025 at 10:07 AM, TwiceHorn said:

Given that UT was modeled on UVa, at least insofar as the use of colleges, we should follow suit.

Do you seriously think we would do that?

He said should, not would.  I think at this point shit in one hand and wish in the other.

1 minute ago, Hefeweizen said:

He said should, not would.  I think at this point shit in one hand and wish in the other.

My point is that our state government and university administration give no shits about what our university was "modeled" after.  Higher public ed is dead in Texas.

17 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Do you seriously think we would do that?

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

My point is that our state government and university administration give no shits about what our university was "modeled" after.  Higher public ed is dead in Texas.

Yeah I am really glad not to be in a spot where my degree matters.  I feel bad for the Texas Exes trying to find work in the next few years as the degree becomes worth less than a TSTI diesel mechanic's certificate.

2 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

Yeah I am really glad not to be in a spot where my degree matters.  I feel bad for the Texas Exes trying to find work in the next few years as the degree becomes worth less than a TSTI diesel mechanic's certificate.

Same here.  My two current UT undergrads?  My advice has been "you had better consider at least a masters and probably a PhD from somewhere like UCLA".

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Same here.  My two current UT undergrads?  My advice has been "you had better consider at least a masters and probably a PhD from somewhere like UCLA".

Great advice.  Quickest way to make undergrad irrelevant is get a graduate degree.  Professionally it takes four or five years to get away from your degree.

17 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

My advice has been "you had better consider at least a masters and probably a PhD from somewhere like UCLA".

It will be interesting to see whether non-Compact graduate programs adopt "content-neutral," "skills-first" gateways - facially school-agnostic that they could argue are educationally justified - to intentionally screen applicants from universities that sign the Compact. Applied uniformly and tied to bona fide predictors of student success, that would look less like retaliation and more like quality control - though it’s still a First Amendment and antitrust mine field, for now.

Over time, the separation will take care of itself: mandated cuts, shrinking instructional and research budgets, and faculty flight will constrict the talent pipeline and nudge talented undergrads elsewhere. Eventually, applicants from Compact campuses increasingly won’t clear neutral readiness thresholds - not because anyone flagged their alma mater, but because the skills evidence won't be there.

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According to a post on r/UTAustin, UT will sign the compact. Not a surprise, but still depressing.

RIP The University of Texas.

1 minute ago, BrickHorn said:

According to a post on r/UTAustin, UT will sign the compact. Not a surprise, but still depressing.

RIP The University of Texas.

 

stephen miller will have a heavy hand 

5 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

According to a post on r/UTAustin, UT will sign the compact. Not a surprise, but still depressing.

RIP The University of Texas.

Not that they care, but Plan II, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Law School will be getting a nice little "do not contact" letter from me.  Not another penny to this university (I already don't buy season tickets to anything).

30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Not that they care, but Plan II, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Law School will be getting a nice little "do not contact" letter from me.  Not another penny to this university (I already don't buy season tickets to anything).

I bought football season tickets for a dozen years thru 2005 (and several years before that on the student/employee plan), but never contributed to the Foundation, because UT is rich as shit and my donations went to my undergrad school.  Magically my season ticket application for 2006 "got lost in the mail", so oh well, guess who bought a big-screen TV and never looked back?  Fuck UT.

Makes that softball piece they wrote on him in The Alcalde even more laughable about how much he appreciated his education at UT and learning from different perspectives, blah blah blah. 

9 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

I've already decided that if UT submits that I will be mailing my diploma to Jim Davis

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Also saw on LinkedIn one of my profs, in grad school, Dr. Markman,  got let go of his administrative responsibilities due to ideological differences. Not sure if he's leaving UT completely. Fucking hell, he's a great professor and really accomplished in his field too.

4 minutes ago, YChang said:

Also saw on LinkedIn one of my profs, in grad school, Dr. Markman,  got let go of his administrative responsibilities due to ideological differences. Not sure if he's leaving UT completely. Fucking hell, he's a great professor and really accomplished in his field too.

"Two Guys on Your Head" Art Markman?

Just now, bolverk said:

"Two Guys on Your Head" Art Markman?

Yep. 

Gonna just mail this to Davis, to give him a head start on picking our new color.  Which one should be picked for "Cowardly Texas Yellow?"

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I like Sunnyside Up, myself.

Is that the Tom Herman pee chart? 

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