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    • On Not Celebrating Steven Salaita’s Settlement With The University Of Illinois

      By: Samir Chopra I cannot bring myself to celebrate the news of Steven Salaita's settlement with the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). The reasons for this are fairly straightforward–as noted in a petition now circulating: the crucial legal issues at the heart of his dismissal remain unresolved, and his job has not been…

    • Steven Salaita Settles with UIUC

      As is being widely reported, Steven Salaita has settled with UIUC, which has agreed to pay him $875,000 (some of which will resolve his legal fees). The press release from the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has represented Prof. Salaita, is here.  A bit more detail about the trustees' meeting where the settlement was approved…

    • On Sympathy for Scapegoats and Administrators

      There is probably an interesting post to be written on the moral standing of the scapegoat — on whether, that is, being put in the position to take a disproportionate share of the blame for something, or even simply to shield other guilty parties from blame, entitles one to claim that one has been treated…

    • Big Developments in the Salaita Case

      Yesterday brought two major developments relating to Steven Salaita's firing by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.   First came the news that the U.S. District Court in Chicago ruled to uphold the validity all of Steven Salaita's key legal claims, rejecting the University's motion to dismiss them.  This does not mean, of course, that the claims…

    • Steven Salaita, Palestinians, And Autobiography

      By: Samir Chopra Last night, along with many Brooklyn College students, faculty (and some external visitors) I attended ‘Silencing Dissent: A Conversation with Steven Salaita, Katherine Franke and Corey Robin‘, organized by the Students for Justice in Palestine. (My previous posts on this event can be found here and here.) As Robin has noted over…

    • Standing By Sponsoring ‘Steven Salaita at Brooklyn College’

      By: Samir Chopra Last week, I made note here of the philosophy department at Brooklyn College co-sponsoring ‘Silencing Dissent: A Conversation with Steven Salaita, Katherine Franke and Corey Robin‘, an event organized by the Students for Justice in Palestine and scheduled for Thursday, November 20th. As you will notice, on the link for the event above, there is a disclaimer, in fine print, which…

    • Sponsoring ‘Steven Salaita At Brooklyn College’

      academic freedom, BDS, Brooklyn College, constitutional rights, Corey Robin, First Amendment, free speech, Israel, Katherine Franke, Palestine, Steven Salaita, University of Illinois.

    • Normalizing Civility, Policing Critique, Enforcing Silence and Misunderstanding Collegiality

      By Leigh M. Johnson How we ought to understand the terms "civility" and "collegiality" and to what extent they can be enforced as professional norms are dominating discussions in academic journalism and the academic blogosphere right now.  (So much so, in fact, that it's practically impossible for me to select among the literally hundreds of…

    • Steven Salaita’s First Public Statement Since His ‘Unhiring’

      Especially given the attention we've paid to the case here (see our new tag, and also Samir's posts here and here, and Eric Schwitzgebel's here), it is important to note that Steven Salaita had a press conference today, at which he issued this following statement.   The full audio of the statement and the press…

    • Salaita and the Accreditors

      Following a suggestion from a friend that some of what’s come to light about the roles of the administration and the board in the Salaita affair might not be consistent with accrediting principles regarding shared governance, I decided to check out the specific rules that UIUC is supposed to be operating under.   The upshot…