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Ashley T. Rubin
Chronicle of Higher Education
The recent report on the state of scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences has renewed the debate over the internal politicization of academe. As one of its authors (speaking only for myself), I find the report relatively tepid. It offers the middle-of-the-road finding that, while there are reasons to be concerned, the baldest criticisms of the sector are unwarranted. Responses have ranged from slurring the project as McCarthyistic to finding it insufficiently hostile to the fields it examines.
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Can faculty lead the reform of higher education from the inside — and if so, who checks whom?
Anonymous sources told The New York Times that Yale has sought a deal with the federal government to end an investigation into its undergraduate and graduate admissions, and has hired the law firm that helped the University of Virginia settle last fall.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AFT Connecticut, Yale AAUP and the national AFT sent a letter to the Yale University Board of Trustees, urging them to reject any negotiated, closed-door settlement with the Trump administration regarding its admissions practices. The coalition warns that making concessions under political pressure would compromise Yale’s academic freedom, shared governance, and institutional independence.
