On Tuesday, Peterson received a letter signed by the dean of the faculty of arts and science, as well as the vice-provost of faculty and academic life, reminding him of his obligation as a faculty member to "act in a manner that consistent with the law and with university policy".
He helped design the influential "great books" curriculum at Columbia, where he was one of its most admired figures for half a century, serving as provost, dean of faculty and university professor.
Her mother is the provost of the faculty at Barnard.
Any rational budget analyst would mark this deanship for the ax, since it overlaps with the senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity and with the co-chairpersonships of the Standing Committee on Women.
I have lost count of the number of times I've heard arguments to this effect at academic library and publishing conferences, and I confess it is part of what drew me toward my current post as assistant provost for faculty appointments and information at Harvard.
Not daunted by the superfluity of her role, Lamont plans to "research what other universities are doing on the diversity front," the Crimson reports, something that the senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity also does.
She later became the assistant provost and then in 1997, the associate provost for Faculty Development, Diversity and Special Programs.
"They emphasize what I think is often the elephant in the room that people don't want to talk about, which is a lingering and often unconscious bias that people have toward women in science and other fields in which they are underrepresented," says Marlene Zuk, associate vice provost in charge of faculty diversity at the University of California, Riverside.
Its provost and dean of faculties, Jonathan R. Cole, has defended Mr. Said's right to free speech.
In mid-October it did, with a statement from John R. Cole, the provost and dean of faculties.
And Herman Berliner, provost and dean of faculties at Hofstra University, warned that entering the workforce before college could backfire if the strong economy moderates.
