Way to go, Doug!
Congratulations to Doug Ambrose on his promotion to full professor at Hamilton College. Prof. Ambrose is a Charter Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. The omission of that fact from Hamilton’s announcement is no doubt an oversite.
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* "was cited in a Reader's Digest article"
* "contributed a chapter, "Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter," to Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music (University of Rochester Press)...has published articles in Queering The Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology"
* "published "How to View a Jesus Movie," a useful guide to viewing Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ." "
It's your school.
I read the descriptions of those faculty who became senior professors. No wonder the Alexander Hamilton Center didn't get off the ground. Outside of Ambrose, would you want your kid to study with any of the others?
Thanks Hunter Brown for the heads up!
Thickstun's Book Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education Lauded in The New Yorker;
O'Neal Receives Medal in Napoleonic Order at French Embassy;
Owens-Manley Presents at Bonner Leadership Institute;
Associated Press Features Run for the Fallen;
Cafruny's Book Europe at Bay Shortlisted for Annual Book Prize.
Loads more at hamilton.edu/news
I confess to ignorance on all three counts and make no judgement as to their scholarly content.
hb
Actually, I'll amend my comment a bit. Peggy Seegar is my favorite self proclaimed "Activist with an Attitude!". This one is timeless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jeED-4_v68
Is it true that Hamilton hosted not one conservative speaker last year? If true, not a good sign.
"Do Professor Mansfield's criticisms of Harvard apply to, say, Hamilton College? Well, Harvard appears to have more conservative faculty in a government department of fifty than Hamilton College has in a faculty of about 200. Hamilton College boasts an abundance of diversity administrators and groups: the Diversity and Social Justice Project, Social Justice Initiative, Associate Dean for Diversity Initiatives, Associate Dean of Students for Diversity and Accessibility, etc., etc. These groups, in aggregate, command hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. In fact, one of the chief reasons why Hamilton College did away with merit scholarships, as President Joan Hinde Stewart candidly admitted, was to fund diversity initiatives. Yet, paeans to diversity notwithstanding, Hamilton College hosted on campus not one--that's right, not one-- conservative speaker during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Money, as any sane person recognizes, affects speech, whether in a presidential election or on a college campus. It is not hard to figure out in what political direction administrative largesse to the diversity cartel drives campus culture. Yet when asked point blank by AHI co-founder Robert Paquette if the absence of conservative speakers suggests a lack of intellectual diversity on the Hamilton College campus, the dean of the faculty responded, "no." Recall also that in explaining to a local reporter why Hamilton College reneged on a signed agreement to establish the Alexander Hamilton Center on campus, the dean averred, “The feeling was,” that the center “would be destructive to the faculty community here—so destructive that we were willing to walk away” from a multi-million dollar gift. Note how academics use the language of communitarianism to package the reality of exclusion."
But i think it's a bit unfair to blame the Administration, some fault lies with the College Republicans, who i have to say are poorly organized, and haven't undergone the effort to set up speakers or get money from Student Assembly for speakers, which they could do fairly easily (although like all student organizations, they probably wouldn't get very much).
The bigger problems is that the Republicans have done almost no events this year, and didn't do ANY public events last semester for the student body, instead curling up in the fetal position in the AHI. And while i admit we have a tough time sometimes with some crazies, in the end we need to take some initiative here, and not just complain about the problem.
How would conservative students go about trying to level the playing field on campus? The problem seems greater than merely adding a conservative speaker here and there.
Stewart stays to 2012,for the 200-year celebration. Urgo follows, being groomed to replace her. Let's Party!
"Donovan, a world politics major, has been able to attend Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay, since the Capitol is within walking distance of her office."
Isn't it interesting that the article says "the use of torture" not "the alleged use of torture."
I also noticed this:
"In addition to leading the Amnesty International group at Hamilton, Donovan is a member of Action Plan, which brings together the leaders of the different political activist groups on campus."
The fellowship is named after Joe Anderson. I know Joe Anderson. I can't think he would be pleased.
It announced the impressive recent accomplishments of Professor of Chemistry George Shields. Shields has a deserved reputation as one of the finest undergraduate teachers on the campus.
Yet, you would not know from the article that George Shields has left Hamilton College. Do any of Hamilton's trustees want to ask what role the current administration played in his departure?
Take heart. Stuart Scott, who, no doubt, will go down in history as one of the most ineffective chairmen in the history of Hamilton's board, ends his rule of error today!
Let's all pop a cold one in thanks.
"When you break it out by individual companies, you find that employees of Goldman Sachs gave more to Obama than workers of any other employer. The Goldman Sachs geniuses are followed by employees of the University of California, UBS, . . ."
How many Goldmanites on Hamilton's board?
A cabal of several of them plus a lawyer or two!!!!
No surprise there.