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Proceedings Start Against Portland State University Professor Whose Carefully Crafted Fiction Helped Expose the Rot Within Some Sectors of Modern Academia
Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University in Oregon, led a trio of scholars last year who submitted to leading publications what they called "intentionally broken" papers on gender, race and sexuality. Several of those absurd pieces were published. Portland State University has now started disciplinary proceedings against Boghossian. From a report: The Oregon university's institutional review board concluded that Boghossian's participation in the elaborate hoax had violated Portland State's ethical guidelines, according to documents Boghossian posted online. The university is considering a further charge that he had falsified data, the documents indicate. Last month Portland State's vice president for research and graduate studies, Mark R. McLellan, ordered Boghossian to undergo training on human-subjects research as a condition for getting further studies approved. In addition, McLellan said he had referred the matter to the president and provost because Boghossian's behavior "raises ethical issues of concern."
Our university system is clearly broken
Horse shit.
PSU is part of the Oregon higher education system. PSU is not primarily a research school. Most research in Oregon is divided between the University of Oregon (CS, physics, biology, geology, etc), Oregon State University (Engineering, Ag., Forestry, etc), and Oregon Health Sciences Univeristy(OHSU; medicine; technically a part of UofO, but 100 miles away and actually separate)
The purpose of PSU is to provide a full University education to people in Portland, our only large metropolis. The top undergrad majors are: Management, Psychology, Health Studies, Biology, and Accounting. The top graduate majors are: Social Work, Education, and Education Leadership & Policy.
They fund some research because they have to in order to hire good professors, but it isn't a major focus; students are there to get a degree, not to get an elite education.
Oregon's higher education system serves the purposes set out by the People of the State of Oregon. If it was broken, we'd fix it. It isn't broken. And it isn't for the purposes of whatever it was you said.