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crap done to and by academics

Academics can be so full of crap, including exploitation, racism, and sexual harassment.

  • NYU School of Medicine seeking to hire David Sabatini, who had been forced out of 3 institutions for sexual misconduct Apr, 2022

  • UW-Whitewater interim Chancellor resigned because he could no longer recommend the job to others Apr, 2022

  • Sonny Perdue named Chancellor of Georgia’s university system Mar, 2022

  • Georgia Tech faculty human resources gone wild Feb, 2022

  • 38 Harvard faculty back their colleague, a serial harasser, over graduate students Feb, 2022

  • U Wisconsin hires corporate lawyer as its system president, experienced in mergers and acquisitions but not education Jan, 2022

  • U Florida faculty pressured to change course syllabi and destroy COVID-19 data Dec, 2021

  • U Florida bars faculty from testifying against state government Oct, 2021

  • Yale U fails to stand up for academic freedom amidst donor pressure on a faculty member Sep, 2021

  • appalling handling at U Michigan of serial harassment by CS professor, May, 2021

  • UNC Board of Trustees denies tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, May, 2021

  • Darmouth accuses 17 medical students of cheating based on sketchy computer surveillance, May, 2021

  • math lecturer exploited for >30 years, Oct, 2020

  • faculty member suspended for toxic behavior but uses time to work at NSF, Oct, 2019

  • faculty job interviews gone bad, Dec, 2018

  • microaggressions and “these guys”, Dec, 2017

  • ranking faculty based on their institution, Sept, 2012


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