Faculty foes of a plan to create an overtly partisan public-policy institute at Southern Methodist University, to be connected with a proposed George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum but outside university control, have started a petition drive to achieve their goal. The petition does not oppose creating the library and museum, but says the institute’s “inherent incompatibility” with the principles of open inquiry and academic freedom make it more appropriate to be set up separately and located off campus. The controversy at SMU over the planned Bush library prompted faculty critics to propose a resolution this past winter that was broadly similar to the petition. The resolution failed to win a majority of votes in the Faculty Senate last month. —Andrew Mytelka
April 6, 2007
Faculty Critics at SMU Mount New Effort to Stymie Bush Policy Institute
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