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...resignation of feminist literary critic Carolyn G. Heilbrun from the Columbia faculty should be taken as a strong signal to university administrators across the nation: Feminist scholarship needs support. Heilbrun, a tenured professor who had been at Columbia for 32 years, says she gave up her position this year to protest Columbia's neglect of her field and specifically its failure to tenure more women faculty. While the situation at Harvard is better, we should remain vigilant...
...Still, Heilbrun's resignation shouldn't be taken the wrong way. Universities should not be pressured into hiring single, token women and minority faculty members as a way to appease angry professors. That was where former Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell's well intentioned crusade fell short...
...Some of Heilbrun's frustrations could apply to Harvard, said Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson, chair of women's studies at Harvard...
...Carolyn Heilbrun's resignation shows how it is possible to waste a valuable person, exhaust her and marginalize her," Johnson said. "I hope that kind of thing doesn't happen here, but I think it's a possibility...
Columbia was an extraordinary case, agreed History and Literature Head Tutor Janice F. Thaddeus. Jardine and Thaddeus attended a gathering in Heilbrun's honor last month, at which hundreds of women celebrated Heilbrun's career and discussed support for feminist scholarship at American universities...