A Barrier and an Alternative

Submitted by Robert Lewit (United States), Feb 19, 2013 at 14:45

My first thought is that it would take a tough guy to come into a faculty generally opposed to his presence and potentially in control of his academic assignments. The faculty obstacles could only be overcome with a very senior person whose contract with the administration gives him clear carte blanche. How do we hire and protect the young guys who are so frequently rejected with the admonition that "they would not be collegial."

I am sure you are familiar with the James Madison Program at Princeton or the Alexander Hamilton Institute at Hamilton where alumni donors funded an already present sympathetic senior faculty member to build an independent academic center with no administrative or faculty control. These present still another model for change.

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