Abbott: 'Texas is targeting professors' over 'leftist ideologies'

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6. Here is Art Markman's self description from the UT Website:

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After getting a B.S. in Cognitive Science from Brown University in 1988, I went on to graduate school in the Psychology Department at the University of Illinois, where I got my PhD in 1992. Then, I spent five years as an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Columbia University. My research has focused on four main areas. First, I am interested in the way people see things to be similar, and how they process similarity and analogy comparisons. While the study of similarity is interesting for its own sake, it is also interesting because of what it can tell us about other psychological processes. In order to look at the way that our ability to make comparisons affects our cognitive processing, I also do research on category learning and decision making. I have also gotten interested in the way that motivational factors affect learning, decision making, and cognition more generally.

I served as the founding director of the program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations from 2011-2018. This program aims to provide education in the humanities and the social and behavioral sciences to people in business, nonprofits, government, and the military. The aim is to teach leaders about how people, groups, and cultures influence the workplace. HDO has both an MA and a BA program. I also spent three years as executive director of the IC2 Institute, where we focused on economic development in small communities. I spent 5 years as an administrator in the provost's office.

So Abbott finds teaching about business applications of cognitive science to be "leftist indoctrination"?