more on the Princeton story

HERE. Very sad.

One of the new elements in this ABC story is the claim that graduate students were the primary force behind the non-renewal.

No point in speculating this early. Whenever there have been news stories about universities in cases where I had direct knowledge (from graduate school up through now), I found that the news accounts were always wildly oversimplified and often chose the wrong culprit.

There’s also the problem that tenured professors can say whatever they want within certain limits, while administrators often have to keep their mouths shut for legal reasons. So it’s often the case that part of the story isn’t out in public to be weighed with the rest.