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2007-08-04 Home Front: Culture Wars
Duke faculty should be shunned by students
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Posted by lotp 2007-08-04 12:05|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Tried to Google the names, but this is all I found. Appears the list, once celebrated, has been..... removed?


Department of African African American Studies
at Duke University
Faculty & Staff | Undergraduate Program | Graduate Program | Projects & Research | Collaborations & Communities This page has been removed.








Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-04 12:29||   2007-08-04 12:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Duke has been ..... cleaning up the evidence ...

You can find the list of 88 here, along with their email addresses, classes taught last year and the infamous statement.
Posted by lotp 2007-08-04 12:54||   2007-08-04 12:54|| Front Page Top

#3 KC Johnson has the names as well, and has been profiling the Group of 88, one at a time. Not pretty.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2007-08-04 13:01||   2007-08-04 13:01|| Front Page Top

#4 From Steve's link:

In a recent DIW comment thread, an anonymous commenter—who was clearly familiar with and sympathetic to Group members’ scholarship and the pedagogical approaches of at least a few Group members—criticized the “Group profile” series.

To date, the series has profiled 11 members of the Group. That total is unrepresentative of the professors’ accomplishments, since Group members with few or no publications can’t be profiled.

The commenter, however, criticized the series for focusing on “marginal academics rather than folks who have had long careers with stellar pedigrees.”


The eleven profiled members, it’s worth noting, include:

*The chairperson of Duke’s Academic Council;

*The dean of social sciences for Trinity College;

*A research professor who was listed as one of the University’s top recruits in 2005;

*The director of the University Writing Program.

And coming Monday is a profile of a tenured full professor and two-term department chairperson.

If “marginal academics rather than folks who have had long careers with stellar pedigrees” occupy such positions at Duke, the University has some serious problems.

To quote Drew Curtis, Duke sucks
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-08-04 13:27||   2007-08-04 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 A classic example of Group Think I suspect. "We are willing to abdicate evidence (Jurisprudence) and go along with the group so that we don't appear outside the norm, we want to maintain credibility as a team players." So says Steve Salbu, associate dean of graduate programs at UT Austin. Hitler had a similar following of Group Thinking blind. Bloody phueching academian sheep they are I'd say.
Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-04 13:43||   2007-08-04 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 In the early 90s Duke was home to a number of highly respected professors who valued the western tradition in literature and philosophy. There were massive ideological battles there, mostly won by the multi-culti crowd. Ever since, the quality of academic leadership there has declined and the administrations have been more and more compliant.
Posted by lotp 2007-08-04 13:48||   2007-08-04 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 lotp, it is my opinion the historical facts reveal the south and many of it's institutions began sliding into a dreadful abyss of European liberalism and decay shortly after 1865.
Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-04 14:24||   2007-08-04 14:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ;-)

Seriously, although I was at UNC in the very early 90s and therefore might be considered a bit prejudiced about Dookies, there was a lot to admire about Duke in some of its earlier years. By the time I was in the Triangle they were already coasting on old accomplishments and a major good old boy/alumni finance network, tho.
Posted by lotp 2007-08-04 15:58||   2007-08-04 15:58|| Front Page Top

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