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...Sciences (FAS) (“Tensions Linger at Closed FAS meeting,” news, Mar. 8), you quote Professor Diana L. Eck to the effect that “Wisse’s remarks ‘don’t make much of an impression on the Faculty?? because of their ‘extreme nature.’” This, in a nutshell, is the tactic of political correctness, never to confront the content of a divergent opinion, but to dismiss it as “extreme” or out of bounds...
During two meetings last Wednesday—one with the Faculty Council and one with department chairs—the incoming interim president sought, with apparent success, to dispel the Faculty??s angst about the dean search...
...Much of the faculty??s anxiety about the search “has just vaporized with the sense of calm brought to this discussion by President Bok,” said James J. McCarthy, the chair of the environmental studies and public policy committee and one of two coordinators of an informal group of department chairs...
...course of the crisis of governance that led up to Summers’ resignation, professors voiced strong concerns about how the dean search would be handled. But Bok appears to have largely alleviated the Faculty??s worries...
...sending by killing History 10a. A lack of desire among professors to teach History 10a is an inappropriate reason to eliminate the course, if not a slightly alarming one. To operate under such a system—one in which courses are offered based on the fancies of the faculty??is to set a dangerous precedent. Inevitably, there will always be courses that are less interesting to teach than others; for obvious reasons, many faculty members prefer to teach courses in their niches. But these preferences do not excuse curricular holes in educating students broadly and with necessary...