{"id":1919889,"date":"2023-04-27T05:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-professors-attack-proposal-to-require-u-s-constitution-class-ideological-force-feeding\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T05:11:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:11:58","slug":"hundreds-of-professors-attack-proposal-to-require-u-s-constitution-class-ideological-force-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-professors-attack-proposal-to-require-u-s-constitution-class-ideological-force-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Of Professors Attack Proposal To Require U.S. Constitution Class: \u2018Ideological Force-Feeding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fhundreds-of-professors-attack-proposal-to-require-u-s-constitution-class-ideological-force-feeding%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=1919889&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--><h2>UNC Professors Oppose Bill Requiring U.S. Constitution Course<\/h2>\n<p>Over 670 professors at the University of North Carolina (UNC) have signed a letter opposing a bill in the state legislature that would mandate students to take a course on the U.S. Constitution and other key American documents before graduation. The letter, published in The Daily Tar Heel, calls the proposed bills and other efforts by the Board of Governors and Board of Trustees an attack on academic freedom and shared governance.<\/p>\n<h3>Eliminating Tenure and Requiring American History Course<\/h3>\n<p>One of the bills, House Bill 715, would eliminate tenure at UNC and replace it with a contract system of one to four-year contracts. The second bill would require all college students to take an American history course before graduation, which includes reading the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, at least five essays from the Federalist Papers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s Letter from Birmingham Jail, and the Gettysburg Address.<\/p>\n<p>The UNC professors argue that the bill would prescribe what is taught in the course and determine much of the content and weight of its final exam, violating core principles of academic freedom. They also take issue with the Board of Governors\u2019 \u201congoing assault on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at UNC schools\u201d and the Board of Trustees\u2019 proposed School of Civic Life and Leadership, which they say violates the established principle that faculty, not politicians, are responsible for a college\u2019s curriculum.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting Academic Freedom and Shared Governance<\/h3>\n<p>The professors believe that the bills and initiatives are an attack on their expertise and disregard campus autonomy. They argue that academic freedom and shared governance have long made UNC a leader in public education and must be protected.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9125\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>UNC Trustees Chair Dave Boliek defends the new School of Civic Life and Leadership as a way to teach students to recognize members of political outgroups as friends to learn from rather than foes to vanquish. He believes that the initiative is about balance and providing equal opportunity for both left-of-center progressive views and right-of-center views to be taught at the University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of academics and faculty members at the University of North Carolina (UNC) are opposing a bill in the state legislature that would require students take a course on the U.S. Constitution and other key American documents. A letter signed by 673 professors from UNC-Chapel Hill called two proposed bills and other efforts undertaken by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1919890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[13075,4002,6123,8062,25261,3627,8169,5210,9456,7238],"class_list":["post-1919889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-ideological","tag-attack","tag-class","tag-constitution","tag-force-feeding","tag-hundreds","tag-professors","tag-proposal","tag-require","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919889","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}