Don't Depend on Your University When the Mob Comes After You
Preface to Special Addition featuring article Navigating the Higher Education Minefield by the attorney representing Business School Professor Francesca Gino in her suit against Harvard University.
This weekend a Special Edition of this Substack will include an article by Andrew T Miltenberg, Navigating the Higher Education Minefield: Protecting Faculty Members’ Rights in Academic Misconduct Cases.
Passages like this one captured my attention.
As a faculty member in the age of cancel culture, your views, your teaching methods, your research, and even an offhand comment you make in a departmental meeting, a classroom setting, an interview, or a social media post can put you at risk, and the danger zones are broadening. More and more academics find themselves at the center of unexpected and sometimes very public controversy, often with dire consequences. Compounding the problem is the fact that in the internet age, false and misleading information can spread in seconds, making character assassination through online defamation and cyber-libel a perpetual danger. Attacks come from both sides of the political spectrum. Recent examples range from a professor who lost a potential appoin…