|
Trending Topics
|
Source: http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-liben-05.htm
The Columbia University Report on Its Middle Eastern Department's Problems: A Methodological Paradigm for Obscuring Structural Flaws
(Anti-Semitism and Discrimination: Case Analyses/JCPA) Noah Liben - Dozens of cases of Columbia University faculty misbehavior including biased teaching, intimidation of pro-Israeli students, and inadequate grievance procedures were exposed in the documentary "Columbia Unbecoming." The university's administration appointed a faculty committee, compromised by personal and professional relationships with the accused professors, then instructed it to deal only with some of the problems. The, only partly published, committee report shows that Columbia's administration has developed a detailed methodology for ignoring unpleasant facts. This raises many questions as to universities' capability, and Columbia's in particular, to reform themselves.