Stephen L. Morgan

Even more sad than @asanews is the ongoing shift of @AAUP, including the chapter at my own university. What was once a great protector of academic freedom has relegated academic freedom to subordinate status, with the prime directive now being support of the labor movement.

Now the “public sociology” crowd, including the many soft followers who pushed out those with a scientific orieantation, has split because of the cause championed by @Soc4Pal. It was inevitable that a split would emerge. @ASAnews will not recover anytime soon.

I let my membership at @ASAnews expire at the end of 2022 after 27 years of commitment to what I wanted to be primarily a scientific organization and secondarily one of social concern. That balance no longer looked possible because the “public sociology” crowd was unstoppable.

Teaching Coleman today in a graduate course. Maybe, in view of the government shutdown, it is time to open my mint condition board game of his to learn about bargaining and compromise?

This is an important post from a longtime and very well influential conservative education scholar. He explains why education data collection within the federal government must continue.