Probably emblematic of how scared universities are after Trump fucked with academic funding. Admin decided to put on a show of obsequiousness to avoid getting hit with something worse, at the cost of whatever international reputation the psych program at University of Oklahoma had. Can't imagine anyone from the sane parts of the world wanting to host a conference there now.

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

International? Nobody across liberal America will ever take it seriously again if a no confidence vote isn't held on the president by the faculty union ASAP, and the leadership team is forced out.

I doubt that level of response given the milquetoast grumbling so far, so OU has just placed itself in the same category as private for profit Christian schools in terms of reputation as far as I, and plenty of others in positions where it matters, are concerned.

And yes yes, I am a LIB

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, I don't know how seriously UO's program was being taken before but I would be pissed if I had a degree with their name on it right now.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There were threats to withdraw funding for not cracking down on Palestinian supporters. The universities did the crackdowns on their students. Then their funding got cut anyway.

Liberals are fucking cowards who think they can reason with reactionaries as if reactionaries won't murder them once they know they can get away with it.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

There are definitely enough examples of it not being an effective strategy that you'd think they'd stop pre-emptively surrendering, but who knows, maybe there's enough reactionary private donors that they they still think there's a way to placate to victory.