This Saturday Night Special scheme - the surprise meeting, with a surprise candidate, announced on Friday, to be held on Monday morning - is clearly meant to thwart the faculty’s ability to gather information and coordinate. There was no committee report issued in advance of the meeting, also mandatory. No reports of citations and other quantitative impact measures, another standard practice. There were no outside recommendation letters, also mandatory. There was no committee of experts from the candidate’s field to study her work in detail and report, also a long-standing requirement that has never been violated in recent history. There was no job talk, a strict requirement for all tenured appointments. This is an astonishing violation of faculty appointments rules long in effect at Northwestern. The Dean needs tenure, so, the faculty is instructed to vote tenure to Osofsky the next working day, Monday.

For the first time ever, the faculty learned the identity of the new Dean, Hari Osofsky of Penn State, the school far below Northwestern in rankings.

On Friday, May 7, the interim Dean Jim “I am a racist” Speta sent an email (below). Reynolds posted the details from the Chicago-based private law school, considered among the top-tier law schools in the nation: Hari Osofsky, dean of Penn State Law - whose favorite past time, at least according to her Twitter feed, appears to be hosting diversity, equity and inclusion workshops - is on tap to become the next dean of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.īut not through an open, honest hiring process - but rather largely by secret committee, according to information obtained by Instapundit’s editor law Professor Glenn Reynolds. Now it looks like its leaders appear to be forcing the hire of a new law school dean who is an open anti-racism social justice warrior, according to her Twitter feed. Northwestern University law school faculty made national headlines nearly a year ago for calling themselves racists as they introduced themselves in an online townhall. The College Fix on Facebook The College Fix on Twitter The College Fix on Reddit The College Fix on Parler Share on EmailĪNALYSIS: Northwestern University law school continues to prioritize a leftwing narrative over teaching students about the rule of law

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