By Thomas Palley
The New School is a historically progressive US academic institution that has fallen on hard times. Recently, it has been in the news because it has fired several tenured professors, invoking financial distress and institutional reorganization as grounds therefor. That has prompted some public debate.
Below are some brief thoughts on that debate. I think it has been a missed opportunity. It should have been used to discuss how to govern academia and remedy the system’s existing glaring failings. Instead, it has been used to tacitly defend the system.
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