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Reminding Virginia Tech
Readers of our blog will remember that in April, Virginia Tech agreed to shelve a controversial set of proposed tenure guidelines for one of its colleges, responding to pressure from ACTA, FIRE and the NAS. In applauding the decision, ACTA renewed the call it made in an earlier letter to the Board of Visitors for a comprehensive review of all tenure and promotion guidelines at the university.
With this same goal in mind, our friends at FIRE have also renewed the call in a 15-page letter to the head of the board, strongly urging the trustees to review all of "Virginia Tech's diversity policies insofar as they pertain to faculty assessment." Tenure decisions should be based on rigorous academic standards and not on politicized non-academic considerations.
Posted by David Azerrad on September 24, 2009 at September 24, 2009 02:10 PM
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