I am a freshman at the University of Chicago College, and I recently co-founded Academic Sanity Consortium with Christopher Phillips and UChicago Professor Rachel Fulton Brown. We are proud to announce Academia’s COVID Failures, a symposium that will take place on May 19, 2023, from 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM on the University of Chicago campus.
Our symposium will be live-streamed on this website. There will be three separate panel discussions about how power-hungry academics have sabotaged intellectual inquiry on university campuses and how the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated such ivory tower rot.
Presenters will include Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University; Scott Atlas, a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution; Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn; and Professor Jonathan Turley of the George Washington University Law School.
Read our full press release below:
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Godspeed, Tyler! May the Lord bless and strengthen you. May many more young people follow your example of courage to champion the truth!
So proud of your accomplishments. I pray we have leaders in the future with strong family values. Values based on Biblical truths and not the flawed opinions of man.
I pray the Leaders of tomorrow are people of your character. People, such as yourself, who seek true wisdom and not neccesarily political approval. People with family values, and the courage to promote the United Stares of America the way our forefathers intended; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.are getting harder to find in our society today. God bless and continued success.
Nice job Tyler! I will be praying for you and each one of the presenters in the symposium. They are all outstanding and should have been listened to during the pandemic. Keep up the good work and I think your strongest credential so far that shows your maturity and good judgement is that you are a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. 😉👍👊🙏‼️
This is admirable student leadership that raises an obvious question: who are the real University “trustees”? Health System President Thomas Jackiewicz, and EVP and BSD Dean, Mark E. Anderson, have much to answer for. It is interesting to note that Anderson replaced University senior executive officer and head of BSD, Kenneth Polonsky who was suddenly demoted from an officer position to “advisor,” putatively shielding senior administration from hospital irregularities.There is a consistent effort to normalize historic Covid policy as a “mistake,” or as a problem that is now merely political. But it is much more than that. Covid is not a free speech issue except as a path to unpleasant factual disclosure. There are no Covid heroes in higher education, only varying degrees of facilitation, or willful ignorance. See https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/will_universities_ever_admit_they_were_wrong_about_covid_policy.html
Nice job Tyler! Praying that your event goes well. I think that the best credential you have so far that shows your maturity and good judgement is that you are a fan of the St Louis baseball team!😉👍👊🙏‼️
“Our symposium will be live-streamed on this website.”
Can not find the link.
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This is an exciting gathering of important thinkers on the topic of “Academia’s COVID Failures,” which
unfortunately is failing to livestream. I have been endeavoring to watch since the reported start time of 11 a.m., yet only little more than an hour of the symposium actually has been accessible on YouTube. I’m going to remain connected in hopes that the streaming will resume, but I’m very frustrated and disappointed not to be able to attend. the symposium remotely. The link continues to go back to the beginning of the stream.
I hope that it will be made available as a recording soon.
Thank you, and. sorry. for your technical problems, which must be even more aggravating to you!