{"id":2634,"date":"2007-06-25T14:07:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T22:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/students-will-begin-hunger-strike-in-support-of-depaul-professors-denied-tenure\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T14:07:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T22:07:24","slug":"students-will-begin-hunger-strike-in-support-of-depaul-professors-denied-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/students-will-begin-hunger-strike-in-support-of-depaul-professors-denied-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Will Begin Hunger Strike in Support of DePaul Professors Denied Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chronicle News Blog: Students Will Begin Hunger Strike in Support of DePaul Professors Denied Tenure<\/a><\/p>\n

Students who staged a sit-in this month at DePaul University on behalf of two professors denied tenure said today they would begin a fast this afternoon to bring renewed attention to their cause. During two weeks of protest, the students have demanded that the university grant tenure to Norman G. Finkelstein, an assistant professor of political science, and Mehrene A. Larudee, an assistant professor of international studies.<\/p>\n

On Friday the Illinois Conference of the American Association of University Professors sent a letter to the university\u2019s president, the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, echoing the students\u2019 demands. In the two-page letter, Leo Welch, the chapter\u2019s president, says the decision to deny tenure to the two assistant professors violated both the association\u2019s standards and those of DePaul\u2019s own Faculty Handbook.<\/p>\n

Mr. Finkelstein\u2019s alleged lack of \u201ccollegiality\u201d appears to have been the \u201csole basis\u201d for denying him tenure, Mr. Welch writes. \u201cIt is entirely illegitimate for a university to deny tenure to a professor out of fear that his published research \u2026 might hurt a college\u2019s reputation,\u201d he says. The association has explicitly rejected collegiality as an appropriate criterion for evaluating faculty members, and has criticized it as \u201censuring homogeneity\u201d and undermining the leadership role of colleges and universities, according to the letter. \u2014Sierra Millman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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