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The Group Tightens Its Vise

By K.C. Johnson

Election returns have come in for Duke's Academic Council, the body tasked with implementing Duke's principle of faculty "self-governance." The body is already run by Group of 88 stalwart Paula McClain.Indicating just how much the Group's pedagogy dominates Duke's Humanities departments, four of the five vacant Humanities positions went to Group of 88 members, led by extremists Wahneema Lubiano and Karla Holloway. (Antonio Viego and Priscilla Wald were the other Group members to be elected.) The quartet joined Group members Stanley Abe and Leo Ching, who already serve on the Council.On the Social Sciences list, Anne ("Group of 88 for Credit") Allison captured a slot, where she joins "clarifying" faculty member Kerry Haynie.Defenders of the academic status quo dismiss outside pressure on the grounds that professors are best equipped to deal with internal misconduct or behavior that violates the academy's norms or ideals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).