West Liberty University students and parents are questioning one professor after she reportedly issued a syllabus that filtered student’s research options.
Stephanie Wolfe’s syllabus highlights which sources students should use in a political science course. Among those, students are asked not to use are The Onion, an openly fictitious parody of real-life news, and Fox News, a professional news organization.
WLU President Robin Capehart was on Fox News Thursday afternoon to give his stance on the situation.
“This is a case where we obviously have a concern because as much as we will protect the academic freedom of the professor, we’ll also protect the academic freedom of our students to go out and find as many sources as possible,” said Capehart. “So obviously we were concerned.”
Oh the Stupid- IT BURNS! (Thanks for the phrase, Scott Bailey). Come on people, defending the use of clearly biased sources or purely fictional ones and calling it academic freedom????? COME ON! What next, firing a Prof for calling Wikipedia an unreliable research source because, you know, it is!
Oh the stupid… it burns…
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Surely Fox News is an important source for information about what right-wing propaganda was saying about some event? Likewise The Onion like the cartoons in those old paper newspapers is a useful source on what ordinary people know/think about an event?
I’ll not rise to the bait about Wikipedia (one of us has to keep on topic
you mean as a source of misinformation
I mean if in an essay I wanted to discuss the right-wing response in the USA to some event or person I could hardly cite a better source.
you could use it as an example of right wing looniness, true. but an example is different than a citation.