Official Bio
Posted on 09/22/2006 4:08:36 AM PDT by veronica
Overruling a prominent dean, the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, yesterday withdrew an invitation to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The dean of Columbia's school of international and public affairs, Lisa Anderson, had independently invited Mr. Ahmadinejad to speak at the World Leader's Forum, a year-long program that aims to unite "renowned intellectuals and cultural icons from many nations to examine global challenges and explore cultural perspectives."
In a statement issued yesterday afternoon, Mr. Bollinger said he canceled Mr. Ahmadinejad's invitation because he couldn't be certain it would "reflect the academic values that are the hallmark of a University event such as our World Leaders Forum." He told Ms. Anderson that Mr. Ahmadinejad could speak at the school of international and public affairs, just not as a part of the university-wide leader's forum.
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Go Home, Tom!
he couldn't be certain ???
You mean he couldn't figure it out?
Well, the dean is female, so if he actually asserted himself, she would have the opportunity to instantly proclaim herself oppressed in NYC.
I'm ashamed that this 'university' was once King's College, another colonial Anglican educational foundation. But the stain developed after we left, the university was disestablished during the Revolutionary War. Still, every time I see some nonsense pop up, it stings.
LOL...only a Lefty feminist would think that the tiny man from Iran qualifies as a renowned intellectual and cultural icon. I guess she thought he was because they both hate Pres. Bush.
So, he is going to speak at Columbia!
Columbia the nation has more sense than Columbia University or Harvard.
"LOL...only a Lefty feminist would think that the tiny man from Iran qualifies as a renowned intellectual and cultural icon. I guess she thought he was because they both hate Pres. Bush."
For sure. Even Nancy Pelosi knows he's "a thug".
President Tom may have "cooked his goose" with that rant about the 12th Iman. I know I couldn't believe my ears as I was listening to the speech. Maybe some "intellectuals" got the message...this guy is a real "nut job." Of course, it looks like they're still going to let him speak, just not be part of a World Leader's forum. Wonder how the little guy's ego will do with that one?
Columbia has its anti-Semitism problem. I'm surprised that they had the guts to cancel, and even more surprised that they were so stupid that they scheduled him in the first instance.
"Campus Watch Editor's Note: Campus Watch has been instrumental in bringing attention to problems with Columbia University's Middle East Studies faculty. We are now pleased to present a new, detailed series of studies on those faculty members. Written exclusively for Campus Watch by Hugh Fitzgerald, noted commentator on the Middle East and Islam, the series provides a detailed look at the "scholarship" behind the recent controversies that have wracked Columbia. We invite you to read Fitzgerald's introductory essay, and the entries in alphabetical order.
A faculty member at Columbia since 1986, Lisa Anderson is described in her biography as "one of this country's most eminent scholars of the Middle East and North Africa." But Anderson is the author of one book, The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980, and only an editor, co-editor, or contributor of articles to other books. Most recently, she was one of the four co-editors of The Origins of Arab Nationalism, with Rashid Khalidi, Muhammad Muslim, and Reeva S. Simon.
Administration is apparently her forte and primary interest: setting up conferences, fund-raising, putting out fires, and the other hectic vagaries of modern university life, seems to agree with her. She currently serves as the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs; she has been president of the Middle East Studies Association. In addition, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Council on Ethics, the Social Science Research Council, and is co-chair of Human Rights/Middle East.
Her most recent achievement was in raising money, almost entirely from Arab sources for an "Edward Said Chair in Middle Eastern Studies." Though Edward Said was neither a scholar or teacher of either Islam, or of the Middle East, but a celebrated polemicist, Anderson found nothing peculiar in naming this chair after him—rather as if one had decided to create the "Noam Chomsky Chair in American Political Theory." Indeed, she managed to raise $4 million, and was instrumental in keeping the sources of that funding secret for as long as possible. Much effort had to be expended to persuade Columbia to reveal those sources, though New York State Law requires such information to be reported when it involves foreign funds.
And finding the perfect occupant for the chair, she held it for him until such time as he, Rashid Khalidi, could extricate himself from the University of Chicago, and arrive to sit on it himself. She gushed that she "can't "honestly think of a better person to recruit to Columbia." In the whole wide world of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, to bring to the university that once boasted Joseph Schacht, and Arthur Jeffery, and Richard Gottheil, she could not "honestly think of a better person.""
THANK YOU, RUSH!
Parents and students who pay tuition for brain-washing at places like Columbia are complete fools. An undergrad degree now costs about $160,000 or $40,000 per year at Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Vassar, and many other centers of left-lunacy, and the only thing the graduate is qualified to do, other than demonstrate against "Bush", is to go on to a graduate school.
Todays Universities would be celebrating Hitler if Bush were President then.
Pray for W and Our Troops
All of the universities are far left........except when someone threatens to pull the funding. Amazing how their persective changes.
All the MSM has been totally ignoring Mr. AhmaMadJihad's speech at the UN. It was bizzare and disturbing. Yet all the news focuses on is Chavez.
LOL --- "he couldn't be certain" that grabbed me too.
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