Here’ a brief, strongly-worded critique of the state of academic freedom at Georgetown Law:
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It’s a brief, strongly-worded critique of the actions of the Dean. It gives no indication at all as to the state of academic freedom at Georgetown Law. It doesn’t even give any indication as to how the rest of the faculty viewed the actions of the Dean.
Yes, that’s true. But of course teh Dan is not a rogue actor but instead a member of the university’s academic leadership. I did notice that some of the signatories to the letter criticizing the Dean are members of the Georgetown Law faculty, so your point is a good one!
A Dean who is a bully? Unprecedented! I’m shocked - shocked!
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The person should be fired for being an idiot, not because of what he said. I 100% believe him when he says that he did not mean what it seems that he means. However, somebody whose job it is to be an executive director at a major institute in a major university should not be shooting out tweets like that. Especially somebody who is not a tenured faculty member should not tweet like that.
Claiming that a person who is looking to hire from a group that has been marginalized is a racist is a dog whistle, and Shapiro should be very familiar with dog whistles.
So he was either looking to start a fight, or has no idea what his tweets evoke. In either case that is not behavior that is worthy of an Executive Director.
Personally, I think that he should lose his position as Executive Director, but they should retain him as a Senior Lecturer. Academic freedom is there to protect the faculty, not the administration.
All that being said, if I got into trouble for saying something stupid, I would like to have the author of the piece, Benjamin Schwartz, in my corner. He writes very well, and he seems to be truly nonpartisan.