My position is that instructors being able to change curriculum -- no matter how great others think they are -- is an important part of academic freedom.
F1 either gets resigned by someone you trust, or throw out by someone you don't. The old curriculum designers no longer teach it, so it's over.
Sure, I definitely think instructors should have the freedom to design the curriculum, even when other people disagree. But I don't think that's responsive to the criticism.
Right, compared to other people doing a worse job I'm happy he's doing it. But "the administration and faculty is determined to destroy the course and we're lucky that Daniel is going to do something good" is not a stirring endorsement of the changes.
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F1 either gets resigned by someone you trust, or throw out by someone you don't. The old curriculum designers no longer teach it, so it's over.
Nobody knows what exactly he will do, other than that it will draw from https://dcic-world.org. So, a lot of the criticism is at a strawman.
The alternative was that it would be redesigned by someone you do not trust.