Banned From Campus

[Demosthenes49]

@cobrat

The Buffett Institute addresses critical global issues through collaborative research, public dialogue, and engaged scholarship.

The first and last part is the part where someone not having completed a PhD may run into issues.

Northwestern is an elite research I university with high research/scholarship expectations of its tenure-track/tenured faculty, grad students…especially those at the doctoral level, and academic affiliates. Completing a Masters or few is nowhere near the same thing as completing a PhD.

What credibility would someone who has not paid his dues by completing a PhD, gone on the tenure track, and experience being subjected to the publish/perish norms to get on the tenure track/get tenured in the context of an elite research I U where “collaborative research” and “engaged scholarship” are emphasized would have over senior Profs and academic affiliates with such experience…especially decades worth of such?

The Institute may involve collaborative research and engaged scholarship, but you have offered nothing to suggest Gen. Eikenberry would need to do so. No one is suggesting his MA degrees are the equivalent of a PhD. We are suggesting that his skills in being a three-star general (far rarer than PhDs, I should note) are directly applicable to this job. I am similarly unsure why you think someone subject to “publish or perish” would make a better administrator.