Warren Smith

But what you see, and I've literally have witnessed this over and over again, is you have antiquated professors who don't know what the new technology is and how these practices are changing, like you were just talking about.

And they're just kind of checked out and they're just going through the motions to get a paycheck.

They don't have a reason to care or be pushing the boundaries in a way.

So it kind of backfires.

It's just not a, and again, it's like forcing through something that would not naturally occur.

It's artificially forcing through something.

It would be like any other business where if you do a good job you get paid more and we want this professor because their reputation they've published or whatever and

And the students are really engaged and their numbers are high and they actually yield results.

They're doing research or whatnot.

But like, why is that not enough?

And then the tenure, it's like there's only so many tenured spots available each year.

And then you add on DEI and equity and it's and now certain people are being prioritized and people think that's a myth.

It's not.

It really does occur.

Yes.

So when I first I was graduate student, I was assigned my first class at Emerson to teach screenwriting with undergrads.

There was a in the weeks leading up to it, I was scheduled to start teaching.

There's a protest at Emerson College, one of the most left leaning colleges in the world.

The students marched into the faculty meeting with placards demanding, again, demanding an outcome, changes, claiming that Emerson is racist.

And they were able to force through the demands and they were able to terrorize, essentially, get the administrators and teachers to feel intimidated and to cower and see to their demands.