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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13 2018, @11:25PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13 2018, @11:25PM (#692597)

    And right-wing anti-intellectual bullocks like this is posted to the main page? WTF, SoylentFakeNews? No bias here, nope, none at all. Nothing to see here! Poor conservatives! They get censored so much! And now the Catholics are censering them, as well! So sad. Maybe now the stupid can get the forum it wants.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:47AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:47AM (#692648)

    OK, who spam modded the AC! TMB? Bueller? Fess up! You are only confirming the bias of the site!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:14AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:14AM (#692802)

    Precisely why I didn't donate.

    You want to propagate junk like this, you can pay for it yourselves.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:44PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:44PM (#692939) Journal

      I wonder how it would work out to create a conservative version of SN? Sort of like Conservapedia?

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      The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @02:06AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @02:06AM (#693294)

        You are posting from inside it!!!!