Under Pressure, CUNY Removes Palestine Scholar Job Posting
Liam Knox | 26 February 2025 | Inside Higher Ed
New York governor Kathy Hochul took an unusual interest in the hiring practices of the City University of New York on Tuesday when she ordered the public system to take down a job posting for a professorship in Palestinian studies at Hunter College.
CUNY quickly complied, and faculty at Hunter are up in arms over what they call a brazen intrusion into academic affairs from a powerful state lawmaker…