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Linfield University president defends firing of tenured professor, says he has no plans to resign Updated May 01, 2021; Posted Apr 30, 2021 President Miles K. Davis also Friday recalled that he had discussed physical characteristics of Jews and other Semitic peoples with professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, after he had previously denied to an independent investigator making any such comments. “I might have well said that from a physical characteristic perspective, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference amongst Semitic people. It wasn’t a racist thing about measuring Jewish noses.'' ...

Linfield University Fires Professor Who Spoke Out About Misconduct Cases Allegations of anti-Semitism, sexual misconduct and racial discrimination have led to turmoil on the small Oregon campus. Some have called for the university’s president to resign. Pioneer Hall on the Linfield University campus in McMinnville, Ore.Credit...Will Matsuda for The New York Times May 1, 2021 Across the country, colleges and universities have been wrestling with allegations of sexual misconduct, racial discrimination and anti-Semitism. But rarely have the three collided at the highest levels of leadership, ...

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here. This entry was posted in Links on About Lambert Strether Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are d...

The Hopkins political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg wrote The Fall of the Faculty in 2011. "I hope to wake up the faculty," he told Inside Higher Ed at the time. "We’re like the residents of a Japanese city living next to the ocean and thinking the tsunami won’t affect us." Ten years later, is the tsunami here? The water is at least rising. Our Tom Bartlett and Jack Stripling report on the events at Linfield University, where Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured English professor, appears to have been summarily fired for criticizing the institution's president. This is just the latest in a st...

Adam B. Steinbaugh, attorney for a national campus civil liberties organization that defends students and faculty rights, said the lack of due process afforded to fired English Prof. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, is alarming. “I think this is bogus. There’s no at will exception for tenured faculty. It’s the nuclear option. I think they’re right in calling this an extraordinary action. I don’t see this sort of dereliction of procedure very often.''