6 academic departments at UIUC have voted "no confidence" in the Chancellor, which Corey Robin thinks is a big deal (and I agree):
In reading the coverage in today's News-Gazette (the local conservative newspaper, which helped spark the firing in the first place), it seemed to me that Chancellor Wise had changed her tone, somewhat less arrogant now. She still stands by her decision, but admits that she screwed up by not consulting faculty before taking it. That tells me that she dramatically underestimated the blowback.
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just how big of a deal is the current shit-show around the University of
> Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's firing of Steven Salaita for his outspoken
> anti-Zionism?
>
> I've seen Zionists essentially call it a tempest in a teapot, and my
> knowledge of academic politics is so weak, I have no idea if they could be
> telling the truth.
>
> Some on our side make it sound more like the storm of the century, but our
> side (not necessarily the same ones) can have reasons to exaggerate things,
> too.
>
> Does anyone with more experience in such matters care to offer a somewhat
> objective analysis of the scale of the situation?
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
>
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