#gordongee — Public Fediverse posts

Searchlight: **How John Tyndall helped cover up a racist murder**

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/08/how-john-tyndall-helped-cover-up-a-racist-murder/

It is a very long time since I was a Searchlight mole inside the British fascist movement. Over 30 years and how time flies. I only visit the UK irregularly as I’m based in West Africa. Sometimes memories come flooding back. And this one was inspired by watching a Netflix cold case drama. It was […]

#News #GordonGee #JohnTyndall

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/49014/20231222/clarkson-announces-plan-to-phase-out-majors-in-humanties-communications

"Just like businesses, you sometimes you have to decide what you're not going to do anymore in order to be able to really flourish and do the new things you want to do." Getting rid of #literature, #arts, majors will lead to dessication, not flourishing. & who needs #media & #communication departs in today's world where accuracy rules (#irony alert -- one learns about it in lit classes!). #Clarkson meet #GordonGee, who is similarly eviscerating #humanities at #WVU.

@librarianshipwreck. "Just like businesses, you sometimes you have to decide what you're not going to do anymore in order to be able to really flourish and do the new things you want to do." Getting rid of #literature, #arts, majors will lead to dessication, not flourishing. & who needs #media & #communication departs in today's world where accuracy rules (#irony alert -- one learns about it in lit classes!). #Clarkson meet #GordonGee of #WVU, who is similarly eviscerating #humanities programs.

#GordonGee: “Are we going to revert back to ‘normal?’ No, we will have a new normal,” said WVU President Gee in an interview with Stateline. “We are going to be much more oriented toward listening to the people who pay our bills — parents, students, legislators and others. And they very much want to see universities, particularly land grant institutions like ours, become engines of creativity and economic development.”

What killing an engine of creativity looks like.

https://dailyyonder.com/public-colleges-serving-rural-areas-especially-likely-to-cut-humanities/2023/12/26/

#GordonGee: “Are we going to revert back to ‘normal?’ No, we will have a new normal,” said WVU President Gee in an interview with Stateline. “We are going to be much more oriented toward listening to the people who pay our bills — parents, students, legislators and others. And they very much want to see universities, particularly land grant institutions like ours, become engines of creativity and economic development.”

What killing an engine of creativity looks like.

https://dailyyonder.com/public-colleges-serving-rural-areas-especially-likely-to-cut-humanities/2023/12/26/

West Virginia governor signs campus carry gun bill - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/west-virginia-governor-signs-campus-carry-gun-bill-97553766

#guncontrol #GordonGee #universities #ohiostate Poor Gordon Gee.