Minding the Campus

Matthew Abraham Verified account @RenegadeAcademe · Oct 31

The self-imposed importance of these petty and over-promoted university bureaucrats is really remarkable.

Here is @uarizona English Department Head Cristina Ramirez at the 12-2-25 Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure hearing in my case explaining the conditions that would trigger my exclusion from campus.

Apparently another email questioning the competence of the leadership team would be enough for her to request that a protective order be put in place and my email account suspended. My apparent transgression? Exposing @uarizona’s DEI infrastructure and the risk-management strategy of its public records office.

Don’t get me started on Professor Stoner in the Soto case!

Over up you, President Garimella!

@DMSabatini @kevinnbass @dangrossenbach @StanleyRidgley @Rach_IC @ult_phil @AZRegents @SVGarimella @Real_Beto_Soto @anish_koka @dr_owenanderson

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../* Verified account @dotdotslashstar · Oct 27

Colin Wright's discrimination lawsuit against Cornell was dismissed today. The reasoning is somewhat.. interesting.

Wright claims that Cornell conducted a secret, discriminatory faculty search, filling a position for which he was qualified, and for which he would have applied, had the opportunity only been available.

Today's decision does *not* determine that Cornell's search was or was not discriminatory. Rather, the case is dismissed based on a lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

Under the relevant standard, Wright must have been "able and ready to apply." The court found that, while he may have been "able," he was not "ready": this is based chiefly on Wright's own public statements expressing his opposition to various university DEI policies, and his resulting disinterest in academia in general.

Thus, the judge concluded that Wright would not have applied for a job at Cornell -- even if they conducted a fair and open search.

However, the academia policies he publicly opposed *are precisely those that he alleges prevented his employment*. Arguably, the court's decision conflates unwillingness to participate in a discriminatory selection process with unwillingness to take the job.

But, putting aside the court's questionable reasoning about Wright's statements, the fact that he applied for only one single academic position in the relevant time period remains, I think, as a difficult argument to overcome against his being "ready" to apply to Cornell.

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Richard H. Ebright Verified account @R_H_Ebright · Oct 18

@nypost Knouse has an h-index of 12 after sixteen years at MIT.

With this piss-poor record, Knouse would not be employable at a fourth-tier US university, much less at MIT, without truly extraordinary levels of preferential treatment for DEI and for false accusations.

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Tom Nichols Verified account @RadioFreeTom · Oct 4

Going through some old papers on a rainy weekend, and I found the 1998 Boston Globe expose on the woke, DEI, vegetarian culture we were trying to push at the Naval War College almost 30 years ago, shortly after I arrived. (Coincidence? I think not.)

Here you go.

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