Fourteen Columbia professors protested the tenure of Middle East and Asian Language and Cultures professor Joseph Massad in a July letter, and plans may be in the works for the unhappy faculty members to take up the matter in person with newly-minted Provost Claude Steele.
Fourteen Columbia professors protested the tenure of Middle East and Asian Language and Cultures professor Joseph Massad in a July letter, and plans may be in the works for the unhappy faculty members to take up the matter in person with newly-minted Provost Claude Steele.
Massad, whose work hovers among frightening, prejudiced, and blatantly offensive, will continue to shape the minds of Columbia undergraduates indefinitely.
Massad, whose work hovers among frightening, prejudiced, and blatantly offensive, will continue to shape the minds of Columbia undergraduates indefinitely.
Middle East and Asian languages and cultures professor Joseph Massad is said to have been granted tenure earlier this summer, though mum’s still the word from the University about the status of his employment.
Middle East and Asian languages and cultures professor Joseph Massad is said to have been granted tenure earlier this summer, though mum’s still the word from the University about the status of his employment.
“You’ll never get tenure here at Columbia.” Those were the words of my department chair. He wasn’t being unkind. He simply didn’t want me to harbor any false expectations.
“You’ll never get tenure here at Columbia.” Those were the words of my department chair. He wasn’t being unkind. He simply didn’t want me to harbor any false expectations.
At first glance, the Joseph Massad tenure battle looks like one of the most civil academic controversies ever to engulf Columbia’s Middle Eastern studies community.
At first glance, the Joseph Massad tenure battle looks like one of the most civil academic controversies ever to engulf Columbia’s Middle Eastern studies community.
The Barnard-Columbia urban studies program is a celebrated interdisciplinary venture, combining political, historical, economic, and sociological study with the schools’ location in the ideal case
The Barnard-Columbia urban studies program is a celebrated interdisciplinary venture, combining political, historical, economic, and sociological study with the schools’ location in the ideal case
A statement released Friday by Barnard College confirmed professor Nadia Abu El-Haj has received tenure, after an e-mail sent by a departmental administrator first alerted the anthropology departme
A statement released Friday by Barnard College confirmed professor Nadia Abu El-Haj has received tenure, after an e-mail sent by a departmental administrator first alerted the anthropology departme
