English is her fourth language. That's a pretty good burn considering. I get that you thinking shallow about everything can reply in a moment to anything, but I need a coffee.
Right, so a number of accounting professors have filed a lawsuit because they think their contracts were not renewed unfairly. In June 2024, CUNY settled with the U.S. Department of Education to address nine discrimination complaints alleging antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of harassment. Both antisemitism AND Islamophobia. Sounds like the faculty have got into a pitched battle? I need a little time to read up. I can't say I'm hopeful that this adds meaningfully to this discussion but see where it takes us out of interest even though it's just straw grasping on the face.
Well... let me state that I believe that antisemitism and Islamophobia both exist on college campuses. School employees who were fired on the basis of antisemitism or Islamophobia both should be rewarded compensation and re-instated if their claims are proven to be justified. With the Queens College case the university's claims quickly have fallen apart. They fired every single Jewish adjunct financial professor and none of other faiths -- statistically that does not hold water. I expect the university will shortly settle and move on. Still waiting on further developments in this case.
Hold your horses, they were not fired for cause, they were not renewed. This leaves us with little public info to go on so we need to see what the filing and case progress shows. Maybe its one guy who is fed up of everyone. As the Captain said this morning, two wrong things can be true independently. We need to know more to draw inferences that support your using this as counterpoint. You would be first to say that the courts will clarify if this was systemic discrimination or a selective grievance dressed up as one. Until then, it’s not proof, it’s a complaint. I need to help my wife for a half hour.
Which is why I am waiting for more details on the results of this case, more filings or additional information. However the likelihood that the university did not renew the contract of every single Jewish professor in the department but not a single other non-Jewish person makes the situation statistically likely to be based on antisemitism rather than other causes. I hope the discovery materials turned over from the university in this case are made public; I expect the emails, etc. among administrators will be quite revealing. This is also why Queens College will likely just make a payout and move on -- they want to avoid handing over this type of information.
So it's a thing that happened but we can't know now what. It may be that the individuals who were not renewed were getting in verbal or physical arguments and it's about improper behavior or bullying. One side's complaint is of no value so I assume you withdraw it for now? Well one can access the filing via the court PACER system but you have to pay a small fee. However, it has probably not progressed yet. Schwalb v. City University of New York, filed under Case ID 1:25-cv-2616 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
There was a link to the filing in one of the articles covering it. However it only led to a couple page PDF showing the name of the suit and basic filing information - -no details. Statistically are you trying to claim that all 6 Jewish professors in the accounting department were getting in verbal or physical arguments and engaged in improper behavior or bullying. I can see one or two of six --- but not all six being involved in improper behavior. Especially since all had been employed at the university for a good period of time and had good marks on public professor review websites. If the accounting teaching department consisted of 12 professors and 6 were Christians and 6 were Jews -- and they laid off three of each then they would have avoided any claims of antisemitism. That Queens College terminated the contracts of all the Jews and nobody else -- puts it in situation where the selection was not likely based on performance.
It's unlikely the layoffs were purely performance-based, although it's worth noting that the main claimant has a very poor Rate My Professor score, and none of the comments read as fake. Still, that's not good evidence in this conversation. It’s anecdotal and uncorroborated. My father was an engineer, and we learned the value of precision early. If he asked, “Would you bet on that?”, it wasn’t rhetorical, it meant he was confident to several decimal places and no pocket money that week the penalty. After retiring at 65, he studied British law for fun and breezed through it. At 75, he was automating the house and gardens with Arduino and such just to stay sharp. He is my model of who I should be, work in progress. He passed on a habit of rigorous thinking. When I later worked as a ranger building criminal cases, not once did I hear “objection” during my testimony. Why? Because I operated with legal-grade discipline. This topic, antisemitism allegations, institutional bias, real reputational and community fallout, deportations, demands that same standard. If we’re going to argue cases like this in the public square, we owe it to everyone involved not to rely on instinct or "statistics" alone. Evidence matters. Precision matters. And when stakes are this high, so does humility in the face of uncertainty.
The main claimant is Helen Schwalb. Here is her Rate My Professor page. https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/1702863 Are you still claiming she has a very poor Rate My Professor score? So much for your "precision".
Yes that's middle of the road but when I opened it earlier it read 2.7 to me... Peculiar... I don't think I had the wrong professor as I remember thinking that CUNY is a very unfortunate ETLA. This is something to consider: