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Special Feature: In Pursuit of a New President
The College is on the hunt for its seventeenth president after James Wright announced his June 2009 resignation. A search committee has been formed; its antecedental task is the resolution of this question: is this a time for steady-as-she-goes, or is there a mandate for fresh leadership? Updates here.
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This is the Change I was Promised
If you are one of those political watchers with an appreciation for fact and consequence, you already know that political dynamo Jamie Gorelick is just about the worst public figure ever produced by an orderly and intelligent civilization, having played a critical role in both the economic meltdown of the present day and, ten years ago, in the intelligence community’s failure to interdict the September 11 attacks. That she is a Democrat has preserved her safely in the zone of “tragically short-sighted” rather than “horrible, incompetent, and percolating furiously with disastrous ideas,” which is roughly how it’d run were she a conservative who had accepted a multi-million dollar no-show job from Fannie Mae fresh from erecting by diktat an intelligence wall that kept the FBI and the CIA from sharing data about Islamic terrorists.
The foregoing is by way of mentioning that: 1) magna cum laude from Harvard ain’t no thing; and 2) Barack Obama is not so much about change as he is about putting old-hand left-wingers back in charge of everything, including the Judiciary.
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May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in… -
March 23, 2009
Post Prop 8 Optimism
An interesting piece in the Washington Post today about the future direction of gay marriage in California vis-a-vis Prop 8. Dartblog has offered contrasting perspectives on the subject, see here and here, but agreed that… -
March 20, 2009
Faculty Politics in the Classroom
An article from Inside Higher Ed looks at a new study by Neil Gross, a researcher at the University of British Columbia on faculty politics, available here. This study and article raise a number of… -
March 5, 2009
Professors, Politics, and Purpose
An interesting article in Inside HigherEd reporting on survey data that shed interesting light on what university professors believe and how they conceptualize their role. Among some of the more interesting findings, there have been… -
March 2, 2009
A Template for College Governance
With the announcement of Dr. Jim Kim this afternoon, I thought that I would present a template for College governance. The humble points that follow are value-neutral; they do not mandate any specific course of… -
November 17, 2008
Reconsidering Prop 8
Dartblog has been covering and opining on the gay marriage debate, particular in reference to “Prop 8” California’s recent constitutional amendment to ban the practice. Some past thoughts here. I have been mulling the issue…