Comments on: (UC Crisis) Post 1: The Story of a Movement – Overview http://blog.art21.org/2010/05/07/uc-crisis-post-1-the-story-of-a-movement-overview/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: This blog post costs $2.75 | all these birds with teeth: this is not about science. http://blog.art21.org/2010/05/07/uc-crisis-post-1-the-story-of-a-movement-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-20769 This blog post costs $2.75 | all these birds with teeth: this is not about science. Tue, 25 May 2010 21:53:34 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=20348#comment-20769 [...] of the University of California system, it’s getting to the red line rather quickly. In a series of posts at Art21, independent “anti-authoritarian scholar” (an oxymoron?) Marc Herbst [...]

]]> By: (UC Crisis) Post 2: The Feeling of Embalming Education | Art21 Blog http://blog.art21.org/2010/05/07/uc-crisis-post-1-the-story-of-a-movement-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-20713 (UC Crisis) Post 2: The Feeling of Embalming Education | Art21 Blog Fri, 21 May 2010 20:01:24 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=20348#comment-20713 [...] the Cold War; the creations of the University of California art professors I discussed in my last post should be understood in a field of wider aesthetic, rhetorical, and historic [...]

]]> By: Marc Herbst http://blog.art21.org/2010/05/07/uc-crisis-post-1-the-story-of-a-movement-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-20590 Marc Herbst Mon, 10 May 2010 13:51:27 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=20348#comment-20590 Jason, subsequent posts will by design attempt to deal with the bulk of your questions.

Regarding teaching, I for one don’t see how any of this relates to in class teaching. In my experiences as a teacher, respecting the educational process trumps any ideological education all the time. If your experiences were otherwise, I’m sorry.

]]> By: JasonM http://blog.art21.org/2010/05/07/uc-crisis-post-1-the-story-of-a-movement-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-20587 JasonM Sun, 09 May 2010 17:10:47 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=20348#comment-20587 P.S. It’s kind of amazing that the attitudes expressed in this post are so much taken for granted by the arts crowd — it’s simply in the air that everyone breathes, to cheer on this sort of thing.

I wonder if it would be possible to find a single member of the studio art faculty in any state university who isn’t completely on board with the compulsive lefter-than-thou posturing that stifles and deadens all true creativity.

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_california.html

]]> By: JasonM http://blog.art21.org/2010/05/07/uc-crisis-post-1-the-story-of-a-movement-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-20586 JasonM Sun, 09 May 2010 17:02:53 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=20348#comment-20586 Instead of foisting all the blame on the big, bad regents and engaging in self-gratifying juvenile stunts like this, shouldn’t a serious analysis of the problem ask:

1) Why didn’t the (Democrat-run) state legislature give the regents more money to work with?

2) In a state with one of the highest tax burdens in the US, why does so much money go into the guaranteed life pensions of unionized state employees, rather than into classrooms?

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_california-unions.html

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