{"id":8329,"date":"2011-03-22T16:13:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T00:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8329"},"modified":"2011-03-22T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T00:16:26","slug":"the-would-be-provost-who-quoted-marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/03\/the-would-be-provost-who-quoted-marx\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Scare at Georgia university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/03\/18\/provost_designee_withdraws_at_kennesaw_state_amid_controversy_over_journal_citation_of_marx\">The Would-Be Provost Who Quoted Marx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the university, the higher up the hierarchical structure, the more one has decision-making power and the further one is from the actual &#8216;work&#8217; (discovering and disseminating knowledge).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Timothy J. L. Chandler, the co-author of a 1998 journal article with that quote about university hierarchies, is going to stay a step closer to actual work. On Thursday, he announced that he is turning down the position of provost at Kennesaw State University &#8212; in part because of furor set off in the local area over the article, which applies class analysis and several times cites Marx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: The Would-Be Provost Who Quoted Marx &#8220;In the university, the higher up the hierarchical structure, the more one has decision-making power and the further one is from the actual &#8216;work&#8217; (discovering and disseminating knowledge).&#8221; Timothy J. L. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/03\/the-would-be-provost-who-quoted-marx\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,747,287,2276],"tags":[1288925,1288923,98212,2059,98215,962],"class_list":["post-8329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-academics","category-administration","category-working-conditions","tag-academic-freedom","tag-administration","tag-kennesaw-state-u","tag-marx","tag-red-scare","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}