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A battle won
This weekend, the Richmond Times-Dispatch published an editorial highlighting the controversial tenure and promotion guidelines recently proposed at Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. It concluded on a wishful note by "hoping wiser heads at Tech make necessary changes." The wiser heads must have listened, because the university announced yesterday that it would rescind the proposed policy.
The CLAHS is, however, only one of Virginia tech's nine colleges. The provost's tenure guidelines, which have been on the books for some time now and contain similar policies, remain. Let us hope the wiser heads will not stop there and will look at all Virginia Tech policies that raise serious First Amendment and academic freedom issues.
Posted by David Azerrad on April 15, 2009 at April 15, 2009 01:47 PM
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