They’re watching
I noticed that a vice provost at ASU added themselves to my online classes. They didn’t tell me about it. If I hadn’t noticed their name on the roster I wouldn’t have known. Why?
This is a faculty governance issue and so I reached out to our faculty senate. Faculty cannot be singled out for different treatment based on their religion, skin color, or gender. This same vice provost has also cyber stalked me in my personal social media—meaning in my personal time outside of work they are also watching me. Why?
It won’t be hard to show that I have been singled out due to protected characteristics like religion, sex, gender, and race. They aren’t adding themselves to every online class to “check for qualify.” And if it is supposedly random then I appear too often as a statistical anomaly.
That’s where this becomes a faculty governance issue. Although 97% of ASU faculty identity as left/far left and so they do not agree with me on religion or politics, they are guided by the principle that they would not want to be singled out if a MAGA provost were in charge. They would want to be protected from unfair harassment by administration officials.
How did we get to this point within our state universities? Will faculty object to this different treatment based on protected classes or will they stay silent until it happens to them personally? I wonder if someone has asked, “who will rid me of this meddlesome philosopher?”