Mark Moyar on U of Iowa and Democrats.
Has anyone been following this mess?
Mark Moyar, author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, applied for an American/world history professorship at the University of Iowa. He was not one of the final eight candidates who the search committee interviewed.
He filed a complaint with the university's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, which they rejected. Now, he's taking his beef with the school public, claiming that Iowa only hires liberals (apparently all of the professors in the department are registered Democrats), and that the person the search committee ultimately hired was clearly less qualified than him. Conservative activists, obviously, are pretty receptive to his complaints, but what do you academic types think?
Mark Moyar, author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, applied for an American/world history professorship at the University of Iowa. He was not one of the final eight candidates who the search committee interviewed.
He filed a complaint with the university's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, which they rejected. Now, he's taking his beef with the school public, claiming that Iowa only hires liberals (apparently all of the professors in the department are registered Democrats), and that the person the search committee ultimately hired was clearly less qualified than him. Conservative activists, obviously, are pretty receptive to his complaints, but what do you academic types think?