A skewed distribution

100 faculty at Columbia wrote a letter defending ‘robust inquiry’, e.g. students supporting Hamas shortly after their attack of 7 October 2023.

Here’s a link to the letter and the signatories — https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1cVLg6RTnqd2BTzuouWbfACnFEex7GQeImDZJnMlUReM/mobilebasic

Some 100 faculty signed the letter and their departmental home can be found in the list in the link.  Among the 100 are 1 mathematician, 1 physicist and 1 pediatrician.  That’s it for STEM.

This is hardly representative of the faculty as a whole being top heavy on the liberal arts, which may explain the 30% decline in liberal arts majors from 2012 t0 2020.

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