One wonders what the reception would be like were Hugo Chavez to pay the university a visit ...
Douglas J. Feith's table at the Georgetown University faculty club is shaping up as a lonely one. The move to a teaching position at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown by Mr. Feith, a former Pentagon official, set off a faculty kerfuffle, with 72 professors, administrators and graduate students signing a letter of protest, some going as far as to accuse him of war crimes.
Some critics complain about the process. (He was hired without a faculty vote.)
| That could be a problem. As a faculty person myself, it would upset me substantially if a senior person was hired to a tenure or regular track without a proper vote by the Department and the Promotions Committee. Most every university has similar rules, and it's done to prevent deans and chancellors from just hiring their pals. However, as is explained below, if he's hired to a special track especially created for ex-admin types who come to teach and cash in, that's different. |
Some complain about the war in Iraq. (Mr. Feith has been accused of promoting it with skewed intelligence.)
| That can be discussed in an academic forum, like a classroom or a debate. |
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