Breaking: Moody-Adams Appointed Columbia College Dean

Columbia Spectator ^ | February 26, 2009 | by Joy Resmovits

[pleikumud]

Michele Moody-Adams, vice provost for undergraduate education at Cornell University, will become Columbia College's next dean, assuming the mantle from Austin Quigley and becoming the first woman and first African American to hold the post. She will begin her tenure on July 1, 2009.

[pleikumud]

First woman and first black to be dean of Columbia College at Columbia University. She donated $500 to Obama's campaign in 2008. Columbia probably doesn't need to lift another finger to prove it has diversity at the top of its agenda. It welcomes students of all backgrounds and political opinions, so long as the opinions are far enough to the left.

It is amazing that parents spend, borrow or beg to get $50,000 a year to send junior or sis to such a hotbed of socialism. Columbia of course does not allow ROTC on campus, and invited the Iranian president to speak there last year. Columbia would invite Hitler if he were still alive, since he was, after all, a National Socialist (Nazi).

[anniegetyourgun]

I once worked at a college that named one of the nation’s first black female presidents. She was a cold-hearted, dictatorial tyrant.

[ConorMacNessa]

Aside from being a female Afro-American leftist, what are her qualifications?

[pleikumud]

Moody-Adams graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 with a B.A. in philosophy. She attended Somerville College at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship, and received a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics, in 1980. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1986. Moody-Adams wrote her dissertation on “Moral Philosophy Naturalized: Morality and Mitigated Skepticism in Hume” under the supervision of John Rawls. Before coming to Cornell in Fall of 2000, Moody-Adams worked at Indiana University, Bloomington as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education.

She’s most likely very well qualified to be dean at Columbia, or hundreds of other politically correct, anti-capitalist, anti-American institutions of higher learning. It would be foolish for a political conservative to attend Columbia, since he or she would be discriminated against.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Your Question: "Aside from being a female Afro-American leftist, what are her qualifications?"

Response: After reading her resume, the answer to your question-none.

[MplsSteve]

“Moral Philosophy Naturalized: Morality and Mitigated Skepticism in Hume”

I’m sure that was an absolute joy of a dissertation to read..

(eyes rolling into the back of my skull)

[pleikumud]

Yeah, a thrill a minute. Academic BS of little use to 99% of the world.

[Cowboy Bob]

Moody-Adams graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 with a B.A. in philosophy. She attended Somerville College at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship, and received a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics, in 1980. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1986. Moody-Adams wrote her dissertation on “Moral Philosophy Naturalized: Morality and Mitigated Skepticism in Hume” under the supervision of John Rawls. Before coming to Cornell in Fall of 2000, Moody-Adams worked at Indiana University, Bloomington as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education.

While the schools she attended are impressive, they can easily be explained away as "Affirmative Action." Michelle Obama graduated from both Princeton and Harvard. But we all know that if she was a White male, she didn't have the brains to be admitted to either.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, at least she had Lou Rawls to supervise.

[rmlew]

Are you an alumnus?