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Ralph J Hodosh's avatar

Aside from stifling dissent within its own ranks, how much weight should a position taken by a university department be given? If a professor in civil engineering publishes a paper on the need for infrastructure maintenance, that can assumed to be based on an educated opinion. If a professor in women's studies publishes a paper on the salary gap between women and men, that can also be assumed to be based on an educated opinion. If either of those professors writes about achieving peace in the Middle East, that would represent an opinion although, perhaps, not educated.

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Andrew Holmes's avatar

No one needs to invent a policy. The University of Chicago has written and apparently enforces all that needs to be said. Given the gross bias demonstrated by many university's administrators, even if they publish the Chicago Statement, I doubt they would ever enforce it.

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