{"id":1200162,"date":"2022-01-08T16:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1200162"},"modified":"2022-01-08T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T21:05:05","slug":"university-of-memphis-cancels-plan-to-pay-professors-to-go-woke-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-memphis-cancels-plan-to-pay-professors-to-go-woke-governor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Memphis Cancels Plan to Pay Professors to Go Woke, Governor Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funiversity-of-memphis-cancels-plan-to-pay-professors-to-go-woke-governor-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1200162&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Tennessee governor pushed university to abandon plan after Free Beacon report <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/money.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"cash money\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/money.jpg 485w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/money-300x210.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 January 8, 2022 4:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The governor of Tennessee says the University of Memphis is cancelling a program that offered financial incentives to professors for infusing&#8221; social justice&#8221; into their courses.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gov. Bill Lee (R., Tenn.) contacted the public university immediately after learning about the new program, first <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/public-university-offers-professors-cash-to-go-woke\/\">reported<\/a> on by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, which offered faculty $3,000 to redesign their curricula to align with the university&#8217;s &#8220;diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice&#8221; commitments. The governor says the program will not be carried out.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The University of Memphis informed my office that the initiative will not move forward,&#8221; Lee told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;We welcome robust debate on college campuses, but taxpayer dollars should never be used to fuel a divisive, radical agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Ending this program was the right decision, and I thank the university for hearing our concerns,&#8221; Lee said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The public university was set to dole out tens of thousands of dollars to faculty members in any department who were willing to redesign their classes, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/us20.campaign-archive.com\/?e=__test_email__&amp;u=307cfa65e342a9ef593822e87&amp;id=1ce75aeb4a\">all-faculty email<\/a> obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Memphis did not respond to a request for comment on the program. A university professor who asked to remain anonymous says the school has not notified faculty the offer was taken off the table, but that it was a welcome change for the university to &#8220;prioritize educating students over progressive politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Hopefully this incident serves to refocus Memphis and other universities on educating students and conducting top-tier research,&#8221; the professor said, expressing concern that these sorts of programs could start popping up at public universities across the country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;In the private sector, progressive agendas are theoretically subordinate to a profit motive, but in public institutions there is no limiting factor,&#8221; the professor said. &#8220;Left unchecked, activist employees spend state and grant money on their own political whims. Among other problems, this is leading to bloated administrative costs and the massive cost of college.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During his term as governor, Lee has flexed his political muscle to reshape Tennessee\u2019s education system. He pushed for legislation in Tennessee that made the state the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/as-biden-caves-to-higher-ed-lobby-tennessee-seeks-to-ban-china-funded-confucius-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/as-biden-caves-to-higher-ed-lobby-tennessee-seeks-to-ban-china-funded-confucius-institute\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1641748594599000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2q1QiwdKnvClRsQAM4Q6BP\">first to ban<\/a> the Chinese government-funded Confucius Institute from public universities, and signed legislation that <a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/tennessee-gov-lee-signs-bill-banning-critical-race-theory-in-schools-into-law-systemic-racism-white-privlege-aclu-tn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/tennessee-gov-lee-signs-bill-banning-critical-race-theory-in-schools-into-law-systemic-racism-white-privlege-aclu-tn&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1641748594599000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3YcCDmCnCReGifkRC_zKWU\">bans<\/a> teaching critical race theory in classrooms.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Tennessee governor pushed university to abandon plan after Free Beacon report   Getty Images  Matthew Foldi \u2022 January 8, 2022 4:00 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}