Why does this FAU professor still have a job?

Yes, and I refuse to accept the idea that journalists ever have to do that to get at "the truth."

 

I don't have the inclination to post a bunch of links, but there are numerous examples of professors with "abhorrent" views keeping their jobs. Maybe Smallpotatoes can beef up his CV by highlighting his Internet search skills.

 

1). I'm not doing your research for you.
2). We're talking about James Tracy here. Other professors and their views are irrelevant.
3). There is no doubt this guy's views are abhorrent. They're also libelous.

 

Cool story. We all know Starman likes to bluster, but he's MBP.

 

I'll settle for adding to the e-mail pile on the FAU President's desk.

 

Cue the Anonymous doxing in 4, 3, 2 ...

 

I wouldn't go that far.

 

Small, isn't the bigger issue who decides what's "abhorrent"? Who get's to decide?

I bet a lot of Christian conservatives would find the views of all kinds of tenured professors to be abhorrent? Would you support their removal.

Once you give people power, you have no idea how they will use it. You don't know who their successors will be.

But, let's take a look at a couple of guys who got tenure, despite their abhorrent views:

Bill Ayers received tenure at UIC after his career as a domestic terrorist. Did you find his dedication of a book to Sirhan Sirhan to be abhorrent? Chris Kennedy sure did.

How about Sami Al-Aria? He received tenure from USF despite his pro-terror views. When USF eventually moved to fire him, the United Faculty of Florida fought on his behalf -- not because they supported his views, but because any violation of the contract threatens the entire faculty:

On December 19, 2001, President Judy Genshaft announced Professor Al-Arian's imminent termination. Since this termination involved Professor Al-Arian's due process and academic freedom and tenure rights, the UFF quickly became involved. The UFF defends the contract by which professors at USF are hired, and any violation of the contract threatens the entire faculty at USF. During 2002, and into 2003, UFF assisted Al-Arian in his confrontation with the USF Board of Trustees.

Academic Freedom, Due Process, and Sami al-Arian at USF

 

Is comparing Jews to Nazis abhorrent?

Controversy has erupted at UC Santa Barbara over a professor's decision to send his students an e-mail in which he compared graphic images of Jews in the Holocaust to pictures of Palestinians caught up in Israel's recent Gaza offensive.

The e-mail by tenured sociology professor William I. Robinson has triggered a campus investigation and drawn accusations of anti-Semitism from two national Jewish groups, even as many students and faculty members have voiced support for him.

The uproar began in January when Robinson sent his message -- titled "parallel images of Nazis and Israelis" -- to the 80 students in his sociology of globalization class.

The e-mail contained more than two dozen photographs of Jewish victims of the Nazis, including those of dead children, juxtaposed with nearly identical images from the Gaza Strip. It also included an article critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and a note from Robinson.

Professor's comparison of Israelis to Nazis stirs furor

 

Columbia knew this guy had abhorrent views, turned down him down for tenure the first time around, but then granted him tenure anyway:

JOSEPH Massad’s schol arly contribution during his decade as a faculty member of Columbia University’s Middle East Studies Department may be summed up as follows: Israel is racist, and homosexuality is an insidious Western invention.

Yet that was enough for Columbia, which officially — if quietly — awarded Massad tenure earlier this month.

Columbia’s process for reviewing tenure candidates is as rigorous as any Ivy League school’s. Ordinarily, an academic of Massad’s caliber would be bounced from Morningside Heights. And in fact, the system did work — it denied Massad tenure two years ago.
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Four years ago, it seemed as if Massad would be on his way out of the Broadway gates. A university probe backed up students’ complaints that he disparaged Jewish students who disagreed with him. In one instance, while lecturing near campus, he responded to an Israeli student who asked a question by demanding to know how many Palestinians he had killed.

http://nypost.com/2009/06/29/columbia-tenures-an-israel-basher/

 

I think we will need some sort of hashtag.

 

Ithaca didn't fire Margo Ramlal-Nankoe, but they did deny her tenure. How should she have been handled/treated?

Students for Academic Freedom, a newly formed student organization, has begun to take steps to raise awareness about what they called "violations of academic freedom" fueled by a professor's claims of unjust tenure denial.

The group hopes to challenge academic barriers of what professors can and cannot teach.

Sophomore Kyle Unruh, one of the group's first members, said academic awareness is critical to students' academic experience.

The group has six members but Unruh said more than 20 students have expressed interest in joining.

"We depend on higher education as students, and we depend on our professors to bring us accurate, truthful and comprehensive information on these subjects," he said.

The organization was formed when former students of Margo Ramlal-Nankoe, assistant professor of sociology, had heard she had been denied tenure and may sue Ithaca College.

As previously reported in The Ithacan, Ramlal-Nankoe was hired in 1997 and entered a tenure-eligible position in 2000. She was first reviewed for tenure in 2006 but, as a result of alleged irregularities in the review process, was granted a two-year probationary period. When she was reviewed again last year, her tenure was denied. Ramlal-Nankoe threatened to sue the college in a letter sent to President Tom Rochon and C. William Schwab, chair of the Board of Trustees, on Sept. 16. She claims she was denied tenure based on her political views and the subject matter of her teaching, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The factors considered for receiving tenure are detailed in the faculty handbook and political views do not play a role in the tenure process, Howard Erlich, former dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences told The Ithacan in an article Sept. 25.

Students Respond to Professor's Tenure Denial [incl. Norman Finkelstein] - Campus Watch