Inside Higher Ed: Presidential ‘Pabulum’ and a Professor’s Punishment
The e-mail messages wouldn’t have won Donald Steiner any dinner invitations to the president’s home.
In one e-mail to a faculty discussion group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Steiner — a research professor — responded to a recent message from President Shirley Jackson to the faculty by writing: “Sadly, I found more of the same subterfuge and insulting pabulum.”
And in an e-mail to Provost Robert Palazzo, copied to the faculty discussion group, Steiner wrote: “Should not a ‘provost’ be the advocate for the rights of all faculty? You have not done so. Therefore you are not a ‘provost.’ Should not a ‘provost’ uphold the Faculty Handbook procedures? You have no done so. Therefore, you are not a ‘provost.’ Should not a ‘provost’ be truthful in dealing with the faculty? You have not done so. Therefore you are not a
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