University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
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Re: University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
#2The tweets say that pure math is an important part of the ecosystem of scholarship at a university (slight paraphrase) and I agree with that. I don't really have any concern about axing medieval literature though.
Re: University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
#3The Administrators make their power play: declaring faculty redundant. They no longer want pesky faculty thinking about things that don't earn money, so the math faculty has to go. The end goal is clear: a University is a business, being sold to students and Alumni, for the purpose of profit.
Re: University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
#4The tweets say that pure math is an important part of the ecosystem of scholarship at a university (slight paraphrase) and I agree with that. I don't really have any concern about axing medieval literature though.
I am a pure math guy who absolutely loves the Canterbury Tales.
The only people who should be axed are the administrative windbags and "bottom-line" scallywags. So clever, aren't they? I am sure they can survive out in their precious "real world" that they are so infatuated with and sneer others about.
(Besides Sir Michael Atiyah, Leicester also had my favourite topologist, Roy O. Davies, who wrote one of the strangest papers I have read, "Measures not approximable or not specifiable by means of balls".)
Re: University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
#5The tweets say that pure math is an important part of the ecosystem of scholarship at a university (slight paraphrase) and I agree with that. I don't really have any concern about axing medieval literature though.
Easier not to bite that bullet, I think! Though I found https://acoup.blog/2020/07/03/collections-the-practical-case... persuasive.
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#6A lot of universities do not have a pure math faculty. It can be good or bad, it depends on the goals of the university and which faculties it wants to specialize on.
Re: University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
#7The Administrators make their power play: declaring faculty redundant. They no longer want pesky faculty thinking about things that don't earn money , so the math faculty has to go. The end goal is clear: a University is a business, being sold to students and Alumni, for the purpose of profit.
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Re: University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
#8The tweets say that pure math is an important part of the ecosystem of scholarship at a university (slight paraphrase) and I agree with that. I don't really have any concern about axing medieval literature though.
I am a pure math guy who absolutely loves the Canterbury Tales. The only people who should be axed are the administrative windbags and "bottom-line" scallywags. So clever, aren't they? I am sure they can survive out in their precious "real world" that they are so infatuated with and sneer others about. (Besides Sir Michael Atiyah, Leicester also had my favourite topologist, Roy O. Davies, who wrote one of the strange…
Sorry I don't know this Uni in particular, and I agree with your comment. But why is this such a big issue? I mean, a lot of universities do not have a pure-math faculty because they are dedicated to other faculties. I guess it depends on what the Uni wants to be. My Uni didn't have a physics department, or a medical one, or arts, or music... All of these faculties were however available in other Unis.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am a pure math guy who absolutely loves the Canterbury Tales. The only people who should be axed are the administrative windbags and "bottom-line" scallywags. So clever, aren't they? I am sure they can survive out in their precious "real world" that they are so infatuated with and sneer others about. (Besides Sir Michael Atiyah, Leicester also had my favourite topologist, Roy O. Davies, who wrote one of the strange…
Sorry I don't know this Uni in particular, and I agree with your comment. But why is this such a big issue? I mean, a lot of universities do not have a pure-math faculty because they are dedicated to other faculties. I guess it depends on what the Uni wants to be. My Uni didn't have a physics department, or a medical one, or arts, or music... All of these faculties were however available in other Unis.
Getting rid of something you already have is more newsworthy than never having it, which is mundane as you say.
Consider if Marks & Spencer announced it would no longer sell clothes, to focus instead on food, for example.
Re: University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty
#10The tweets say that pure math is an important part of the ecosystem of scholarship at a university (slight paraphrase) and I agree with that. I don't really have any concern about axing medieval literature though.
I am a pure math guy who absolutely loves the Canterbury Tales. The only people who should be axed are the administrative windbags and "bottom-line" scallywags. So clever, aren't they? I am sure they can survive out in their precious "real world" that they are so infatuated with and sneer others about. (Besides Sir Michael Atiyah, Leicester also had my favourite topologist, Roy O. Davies, who wrote one of the strange…
I also love the Canterbury Tales and still have the intro memorized thanks to a professor I had in college. That said, if students aren't taking the classes I can't see how the school is going to be hurt by losing the faculty. All kinds of things tie into math, not so much into medieval literature.
(That said, I absolutely agree that administrators should be disposed of first and even if there weren't budget problems.)