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Objectivists objected to?
FIRE‘s Tara Sweeney succinctly describes the problems with Ashland University’s denial of tenure to classicist John Lewis. Ashland University was perfectly happy to take a $100K gift from the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship. When institutional leaders are willing to take the money and run, claims that special institutional missions trump lay notions of academic […]
Ward Churchill and the politicization of research misconduct
The procedural conflict in l’affair Churchill is between the need for any institution to investigate serious charges of research misconduct and the need for colleges and universities to be buffered from political pressures that interfere with academic freedom. In most cases, outside political pressures raise issues that are easily dismissed (at least by serious faculty) […]
Scimus quae legis, et non dicimus
There is now a t-shirt for the (thus far fictional?) Guild of Radical Militant Librarians. Oh, I guess I’ll have to translate: “We know what you read, and we’re not telling.”
Under scrutiny
In this morning’s IHE article on Ward Churchill, we read one of the two serious arguments put forward by Churchill’s defenders: James Craven, a professor of economics at Clark College, in Washington State, said that Churchill was subjected to a level of scrutiny that few professors have ever faced or could withstand. “How many scholars […]
Ward, redux(ionist)
University of Colorado President has drafted a letter that would recommend that the university regents fire Ward Churchill. I’ll admit that the comment on IHE’s story by “Frizbane Manley” is hilarious, far better than any of Churchill’s writings. I hereby recommend that Manley get tenure as a IHE commentator. Oh, wait. You probably were expecting […]