The Guardian Covers Reluctance of Professors to Remain in the South

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Guardian is very reputable and fairly down the middle politically.

Professors move all the time. Including tenured ones. Professors have families. So they are annoyed by politicians messing with their schools, plus they don't want to raise their families in these places.

10-15 years ago a northern professor might have considered working at an SEC school - they might be political outliers in town but there was a critical mass of like-minded people so they could survive. Not sure if you would want to be a Harvard-educated Democrat in Tuscaloosa or Knoxville anymore.

No, they really don’t. And they don’t make a lot of money, so the south is perfect with its lower cost of living; they do like to complain though.

NP: I can think of several professors off the top of my head who were tenured and moved from one Ivy to another (not all going from the same school to the same other school). And I have two acquaintances who were tenured who changed schools largely for family reasons.

And I am not an academic nor do I particularly travel in academic circles. So there are plenty of them. I'm not saying it is common or frequent, but it is not something that never happens.

As far as cost of living goes, not all blue state schools are in high cost of living areas. A lot of big state schools in blue states are in pretty reasonably priced areas.

I love people here who are so confident in telling others they are wrong and that something never happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Guardian is very reputable and fairly down the middle politically.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

No.

Commie rag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Guardian is very reputable and fairly down the middle politically.

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I mean, come on - at least be honest here!

LEFT-CENTER BIAS

These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. See all Left-Center sources.

Overall, we rate The Guardian as Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks over the last five years.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/

In this day and age where most things are either very far to one side or the other, left-center biased is pretty good. And note that I qualified my description with "fairly". Especially since your passionate obsession with proving me wrong leads me to believe that you worship at the throne of Murdoch. Ummm. Kool Aid tastes so good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Guardian is very reputable and fairly down the middle politically.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

No.

Commie rag.

Written like low class trash. Put down the New York Post and turn off the Fox Propaganda network.

[Anonymous]

Sure the Mayflower moving vans hire another 20,000 workers to assist the coveted “top” liberal deans from red state flagships to move them to Columbia or Swarthmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Guardian is very reputable and fairly down the middle politically.

Professors move all the time. Including tenured ones. Professors have families. So they are annoyed by politicians messing with their schools, plus they don't want to raise their families in these places.

10-15 years ago a northern professor might have considered working at an SEC school - they might be political outliers in town but there was a critical mass of like-minded people so they could survive. Not sure if you would want to be a Harvard-educated Democrat in Tuscaloosa or Knoxville anymore.

No, they really don’t. And they don’t make a lot of money, so the south is perfect with its lower cost of living; they do like to complain though.

NP: I can think of several professors off the top of my head who were tenured and moved from one Ivy to another (not all going from the same school to the same other school). And I have two acquaintances who were tenured who changed schools largely for family reasons.

And I am not an academic nor do I particularly travel in academic circles. So there are plenty of them. I'm not saying it is common or frequent, but it is not something that never happens.

As far as cost of living goes, not all blue state schools are in high cost of living areas. A lot of big state schools in blue states are in pretty reasonably priced areas.

I love people here who are so confident in telling others they are wrong and that something never happens.

Many of the top schools have extremely posh subsidized housing for professors, for example, there is a whole area of Palo Alto where only Stanford faculty can purchase houses, keeps prices at least 30% below market.

[Anonymous]

German and French universities rejoice!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sibling recently retired as an assistant dean from one of the top southern flagships. They said they knew several faculty at the top levels who had quietly moved to other universities because of the impact the politicization of the boards was having on teaching and research. These are people who had been at the university for decades and are too of their field. They are moving quietly because they love their institutions and don’t want to publicly harm them any more than the state politicians already have.
It’s true not everyone has mobility — but the top of the top do. And the newbies also do. That’s two groups that universities probably don’t want to lose. They are getting left with all the tenured folks who aren’t fancy enough to be able to get other offers.

Don’t enlighten those that don’t believe anything. Wasting your precious time here….

You mean, we're supposed to be enlightened by the "sibling" of a random internet poster? Good grief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sibling recently retired as an assistant dean from one of the top southern flagships. They said they knew several faculty at the top levels who had quietly moved to other universities because of the impact the politicization of the boards was having on teaching and research. These are people who had been at the university for decades and are too of their field. They are moving quietly because they love their institutions and don’t want to publicly harm them any more than the state politicians already have.
It’s true not everyone has mobility — but the top of the top do. And the newbies also do. That’s two groups that universities probably don’t want to lose. They are getting left with all the tenured folks who aren’t fancy enough to be able to get other offers.

Aligns with what I've seen at UT Austin.

[Anonymous]

“are considering leaving their state”

Are considering, thinking about, planning to = this is not actually happening. And this is not news unless and until it happens. Which it won’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sibling recently retired as an assistant dean from one of the top southern flagships. They said they knew several faculty at the top levels who had quietly moved to other universities because of the impact the politicization of the boards was having on teaching and research. These are people who had been at the university for decades and are too of their field. They are moving quietly because they love their institutions and don’t want to publicly harm them any more than the state politicians already have.
It’s true not everyone has mobility — but the top of the top do. And the newbies also do. That’s two groups that universities probably don’t want to lose. They are getting left with all the tenured folks who aren’t fancy enough to be able to get other offers.

Don’t enlighten those that don’t believe anything. Wasting your precious time here….

You mean, we're supposed to be enlightened by the "sibling" of a random internet poster? Good grief.

Clearly now. Now back to your regularly scheduled enlightenment through Fox News…

[Anonymous]

The audience for MSNBC wouldn’t fill up 10 Greyhound buses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Guardian is very reputable and fairly down the middle politically.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

No.

Commie rag.

Written like low class trash. Put down the New York Post and turn off the Fox Propaganda network.

Because your commie rag is so much more “reputable”? 😂😂😂

[Anonymous]

Why did the Texas A&M president resign?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Guardian is very reputable and fairly down the middle politically.

…

I mean, come on - at least be honest here!

LEFT-CENTER BIAS

These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. See all Left-Center sources.

Overall, we rate The Guardian as Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks over the last five years.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/

In this day and age where most things are either very far to one side or the other, left-center biased is pretty good. And note that I qualified my description with "fairly". Especially since your passionate obsession with proving me wrong leads me to believe that you worship at the throne of Murdoch. Ummm. Kool Aid tastes so good.

DP. Oh, please. If we had used a source that was "right-center," you'd be mocking it as "MAGA". Also, there are several different posters here, so there is no one person who is passionately obsessed with proving you wrong. You're just... wrong. Sorry. And btw, it's clear you "worship at the throne" of any left-leaning source. So your projection is duly noted.