Scholarship, Not Politics, Is the Measure of a Professor
Daily Princetonian, April 27, 2005

In this article, a Princeton student examines Professor Rashid Khalidi’s candidacy for Princeton’s newly-endowed Robert Niehaus Chair in Contemporary Middle East Studies. The student documents Princeton alumni, students and interest group’s voicing concerns to the Princeton administration about Professor Khalidi’s candidacy based not upon the quality of his scholarship, but upon his political opinions. (back to academic freedom)