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Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges

posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 13 2018, @08:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the should-have-seen-it-coming dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Earlier this year DePaul University was given the first-ever "Lifetime Censorship Award" by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for its long, inglorious history of punishing and suppressing mostly conservative speech.

The nation's largest Catholic university – which doesn't want students to hear about radical Islam's threat to gay people, vandalism against pro-lifers or criticism of race preferences – has appeared with regularity on FIRE's annual list of the worst colleges for free speech.

[...] DePaul is slashing dozens of staff positions to "place the university in a better long-term position to invest in strategic growth," according to a statement to staff Thursday obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

The 62 full- and part-time staff members are mostly in administrative support roles, and they represent 3.5 percent of non-faculty workers. The statement didn't specify exact positions. The school avoided the ire of its faculty by sparing them any layoffs.

Source: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45753/

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday June 13 2018, @10:20PM (4 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday June 13 2018, @10:20PM (#692575)

    Thank you for those. As soon as I saw right-minded news... on the college fix's masthead I thought:

    Oh, well, this ought to be good

    It turns out the college fix is (partly) just a propaganda outlet for Besty Devoss' weirdo brand of nastiness.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 13 2018, @11:05PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday June 13 2018, @11:05PM (#692587) Journal

    Not wanting to lie on behalf of this corrupt administration is considered censorship now.

  • (Score: 1) by Captival on Thursday June 14 2018, @12:49AM (2 children)

    by Captival (6866) on Thursday June 14 2018, @12:49AM (#692624)

    In other words, "I don't like the information presented so I'll attack the source as a nice convenient strawman".

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:12AM (1 child)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:12AM (#692636)

      If only those "conservatives" weren't so clumsy and transparent with their propaganda they wouldn't be so easy to attack.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:41PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:41PM (#692936) Journal

        Doesn't everyone believe that a DDOS attack against the FCC resulted in the false appearance that most comments were in favor of keeping net neutrality?

        The TRUMP administration says it happened. So it must be true!

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