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Friday, September 12, 2014

Introducing the Stankies: Inaugural "Winners" Show University Professors Yanked Around By Powered Parties

September has not been a pleasant month for the reputation of the American university. One might consider the university a bastion of free speech and open discourse, but as the business model continues to pervade every aspect of schooling in the United States and Big $ talks louder than Big Minds, many are seeing that's not the case. And even when discourse is open, disagreeing with the Big Bosses means about as much in academia as it does in any other sector of employment. 

 For harassing Walter Stroup, higher ups at UT-Austin win one of three inaugural Stankies, an award measuring truly exceptional hanky-panky politics. Feel free to share with Pearson, Bevo. For completely bungling the hiring/not-hiring of Steven Salaita, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and President Phyllis M. Wise share Stanky as well. Finally, for putting Patricia A. Tully in such a position that she felt it best to be fired from her post as a librarian at Wesleyan University, Ruth S. Weissman brings home the brass for that university. 


"Congrats" to all our first-ever Stanky winners, and may intellectual discourse eventually return to the American university, private or public. Something tells  me, though, the Stanky could have a long life.

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