The Dismissal of Joel Kovel: Sanity in Academia
At last Bard’s students will not have to suffer the shibboleths Kovel offered as part of a supposedly solid academic curriculum.
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Ronald Radosh is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at The Hudson Institute, and a Prof. Emeritus of History at the City University of New York. He is the author or co-author of 14 books.
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1. Mark Lytle:I am a long time colleague of Joel Kovel and played a tangential role in the college decision not to renew his contract. He was not fired; the current financial crisis played a key role as did his diminishing participation in the college and his teaching evaluations. Prof. Kovel’s decision to politicize his departure does a great disservice to colleagues and a college who welcomed him for 21 years when few other institutions would. That Bard has recently initiated a liberal arts college for Palestinians should give pause to those who accept Prof. Kovel’s claims at face value.
Feb 27, 2009 - 7:21 am 2. Charles Van Horn:Dear Mark Lytle,
He was fired Mark. You academics have a knack for spin. And if he wasn’t fired, he
Mar 27, 2009 - 6:02 pmshould have been.