This is amazing example of the modern neoliberal university. This idea that complex situations can be solved by the application of online quizzes purchased from a third-party vendor.
NYU is punishing those students arrested at the protests by compelling them to write reflection papers and complete “integrity modules” — all managed through an external SaaS vendor called Symplicity Corp, which was itself charged with criminal hacking 🤪 www.instagram.com/p/C66pPceup1...
2,275 likes, 99 comments - nyu_fsjp on May 13, 2024: "🚨BREAKING: NYU is embarrassing itself. They are punishing arrested students through forced racist re-education training. But there’s...".
It sounds like the only problem they want to solve is how to expel the students indirectly.
The nadir of the hollowed out institutions.
When the project of education has been devalued to only job training, this is a natural result. The same type of tools and mentality pervade hiring processes for exactly the same reasons. Efficiency is a poor moral compass.
We're seeing those actors coming after public resources in Brazil. Universities all over the country are going on strike to demand the funding that's going to private conglomerates that sell, among other things, that kind of stuff. And our secretary of education is quite willing to side with them.
It looks to me like the specific process comes out of attempt to apply restorative justice norms to student academic misconduct. For example, a first time plagiarist can go through such a process and have the record expunged. bsky.app/profile/jaco...
We’ve spent a decade with conservatives and center-white-wingers saying comparing wokism on campus to the Cultural Revolution so it seems somehow inevitable that we’d end up with actual mandatory self-criticism sessions for left-wing students. nyunews.com/news/2024/05...
NYU’s Office of Student Conduct is allegedly requiring that some students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza write “reflection papers” and complete “dozens of writing assignment...
This is just the sort of make-work bullshit you give middle schoolers, right?
"We'll let the Bobs solve this."