{"id":2585,"date":"2007-06-11T11:28:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T19:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/depaul-u-turns-norman-finkelstein-down-for-tenure\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T19:28:52","slug":"depaul-u-turns-norman-finkelstein-down-for-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/depaul-u-turns-norman-finkelstein-down-for-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"DePaul U. Turns Norman Finkelstein Down for Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/2007061105n.htm?=attn\">DePaul U. Turns Norman Finkelstein Down for Tenure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Norman G. Finkelstein, the controversial political scientist who has been engaged in a public battle for tenure at DePaul University, learned on Friday that he had lost that fight. In a written statement, the university confirmed that Mr. Finkelstein had been denied tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Finkelstein has inspired heated debate with his writings and commentary on such highly charged topics as the Israel-Palestine conflict and what he has termed &#8220;the Holocaust industry,&#8221; and has sparred publicly over such issues with Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard University. Last fall, Mr. Dershowitz sent members of DePaul&#8217;s law and political-science faculties what he described as &#8220;a dossier of Norman Finkelstein&#8217;s most egregious academic sins, and especially his outright lies, misquotations, and distortions&#8221; (The Chronicle, April 5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: DePaul U. Turns Norman Finkelstein Down for Tenure Norman G. Finkelstein, the controversial political scientist who has been engaged in a public battle for tenure at DePaul University, learned on Friday that he had lost that fight. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/depaul-u-turns-norman-finkelstein-down-for-tenure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}