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More on Haleh Esfandiari
The Iranian government’s actions are getting far uglier in the case of Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American scholar who was detained after visiting her elderly mother. See more by Manan Ahmed and Engage, as well as the Free Haleh site (sponsored by the American Islamic Congress).
Iran arrests Haleh Esfandiari
Human Rights Watch is reporting the detention of the head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’s Middle East program. She went to Iran to visit her mother and had her passports robbed shortly before she was to return, subjected to questioning when she asked for replacement travel documents, and then arrested a week […]
Corporate donors and universities
From the cutting-room floor: Adam Emerson and I talked for about half an hour last weekend while he was preparing today’s article, Corporate U, and I think he did a nice job of putting the corporate sponsorship of one university program into a broader national contemporary perspective. I shouldn’t be surprised that the historical perspective was […]
Nicholas Winset
An emerging academic freedom case at Emmanuel College is about a somewhat iconoclastic accounting adjunct who followed the college’s advice to talk about Virginia Tech last week and then was fired for what happened in the classroom. At first glance, I wouldn’t want to be an Emmanuel official defending their decision.
When is suspending a faculty member appropriate?
This morning’s IHE story about Michael D’Andrea’s paid suspension from the University of Hawaii Manoa (UHM) and ban from contacting colleagues raises tricky questions about the definition of discipline at a university and the appropriate treatment of faculty under investigation. From the apparent context of the case, it’s clear that UHM is in the middle of attempting […]