[Critical-Realism] FW: DePaul Rejects Tenure Bid by Finkelstein and Says Dershowitz Pressure Played No Role

["Tim Murphy" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Another rightwing academic witch hunt

See also
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/

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June 8, 2007
Chronicle of Higher Education
www.chronicle.com

http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=2462


DePaul Rejects Tenure Bid by Finkelstein and Says Dershowitz Pressure Played
No Role

Norman G. Finkelstein, the controversial political scientist who has been
engaged in a highly public battle for tenure at DePaul University, learned
today that he had lost that fight. In a written statement released to The
Chronicle, the university confirmed that Mr. Finkelstein had been denied
tenure.

Mr. Finkelsteins department and a college-level personnel committee both
voted in favor of tenure, but the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences wrote a memorandum against it, and the University Board on
Promotion and Tenure voted against granting tenure. The final decision
rested with the universitys president, the Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, who
said in the statement that he had found no compelling reasons to overturn
the tenure boards recommendation.

I played by the rules, and it plainly wasnt enough to overcome the political
opposition to my speaking out on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Mr.
Finkelstein said in an interview.
This decision is not going to deter me from making statements that, so far
as I can tell from the judgment of experts in the field, are sound and
factually based.

Mr. Finkelsteins case has excited widespread interest, in part because of
the involvement of Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard
University. The two scholars have sparred repeatedly in public. Last fall,
Mr. Dershowitz sent members of DePauls law and political-science faculties
what he described as a dossier of Norman Finkelsteins most egregious
academic sins, and especially his outright lies, misquotations, and
distortions.

Informed of the news this evening, Mr. Dershowitz said, It was the right
decision, proving that DePaul University is indeed a first-rate university,
not as Finkelstein characterized it, a third-rate university. Based on
objective standards of scholarship, this should not have even been a close
case.

In the DePaul statement, Father Holtschneider decried the outside interest
the case had generated. This attention was unwelcome and inappropriate and
had no impact on either the process or the outcome of this case. 

Jennifer Howard Posted on Friday June 8,

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