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A New Hire, a Koch Grant, and a Department in Crisis The money was supposed to be a lifeline. Instead it added fuel to a fire. Andrea Levy for The Chronicle Politics and the Academy May 25, 2021 The search for a new philosophy professor at Bowling Green State University was relatively uneventful at first. A committee was formed, applications came in. Committee members culled the pool and, as 2015 came to a close, narrowed it down to a handful of people to interview. But Christian Coons, an associate professor, felt that there was at leas...

The Arab Women KIP Index: Study Examines Gender Inclusiveness in 11 Arab Countries Published April 25th, 2021 - 06:00 GMT The Center for Inclusive Business and Leadership at the American University of Beirut has conducted the study. (Twitter: @cibl_w) The Center for Inclusive Business and Leadership at the American University of Beirut and in cooperation with the U.S. State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Program has conducted a thorough study examining women's experiences in the workplace across 11 Arab countries and 6 different occupational fields. Also Re...

Do donors have too much influence over universities? “I scarcely know anybody who works in the academy these days who isn’t concerned about donors’ influence,” Professor Denise Réaume told me resignedly. “It’s almost unheard of for someone to make a big money gift that is not targeted in some way. Nobody calls up a university and says, “Here’s $20 million, now go do good stuff with it”. For this University of Toronto (UT) law professor as well as for Vincent Wong, a Toronto lawyer and former lecturer at the university’s law school, Exhibit A for undue donor influence is n...

Jonathan Marks The politics of higher education are changing. For decades the basic arrangement has had ascendant conservatives arrayed against it and liberals engaged in a defensive rearguard action. The rightwing onslaught was spearheaded by the likes of William F. Buckley, whose God and Man at Yale (1951) decried the secularization of an elite institution overrun by Keynesians and collectivists. The onslaught endured through the end of the twentieth century in the work of people like Allan Bloom, whose 1987 best-seller The Closing of the American Mind—a broadside in the so-called canon...

One of the useful functions of the latter book, in particular, is that it brings force and clarity to one’s prior knowledge of the dangers of right-wing libertarianism, or more generally anti-government and pro-“free market” thinking. In fact, this sort of thinking is an utter catastrophe that threatens to destroy everything beautiful in the world. I know that sounds like an absurd exaggeration, but it’s not. What with society and nature teetering on the brink, it’s the literal truth. I suppose the reason leftists don’t always take right-wing libertarianism as seriously as it dese...