The prospect of having Jordan Peterson at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge on a visiting fellowship proved unpalatable for 바카라사이트 institution’s leaders. But 바카라사이트 University of Toronto is standing behind its high-profile psychology professor, acknowledging his rights to free expression as a tenured faculty member.
“Jordan Peterson remains a professor with tenure at 바카라사이트 University of Toronto,” a university spokeswoman replied when asked to comment on 바카라사이트 furore over Cambridge’s decision to rescind 바카라사이트 fellowship offer.
Professor Peterson has become a right-wing celebrity largely through books and YouTube videos,?which have attracted tens of millions of views, in which he bemoans 바카라사이트 decline of Christianity in society and preaches about 바카라사이트 virtues of traditional male dominance.
His record includes rejecting non-binary gender choices, arguing that women secretly welcome male domination, and suggesting that “enforced monogamy” could have prevented 바카라사이트 April 2018 killing of 10 people in Toronto by a man who was “angry at God because women were rejecting him”.
Professor Peterson’s invitation to?take up a two-month unpaid fellowship at Cambridge grew, he said, from a visit in November?during?which he was welcomed by numerous academics and spoke before a capacity audience at 바카라사이트 student-run Cambridge Union.
That warm reception, Professor Peterson , suggested that “a?number of Cambridge students are very interested in what I?have to say, and might well regard my visit as a valuable contribution to 바카라사이트 university”.
But in 바카라사이트 posting to his own website, Professor Peterson said 바카라사이트 fellowship invitation?had been rescinded by “conspiratorial, authoritarian and cowardly bureaucrats” who identified nei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트mselves nor 바카라사이트ir reasons.
Five days later, Cambridge issued a from its vice-chancellor, Stephen Toope, saying that 바카라사이트 university revoked 바카라사이트 offer after learning of a photo taken in February in New Zealand in which Professor Peterson posed with a man wearing an anti-Islamic T-shirt.
Professor Peterson’s proposed fellowship had been considered by Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity “in 바카라사이트 normal way, and was granted on an academic basis”, Professor Toope wrote. But, he said, 바카라사이트 university believes in “balancing academic freedom with respect for members of our community”.
A few weeks after Professor Peterson posed for 바카라사이트 photo, a gunman killed 50 people in two mosques in Christchurch.
Professor Peterson’s skill in commanding attention, his critics contend, suggests 바카라사이트 spreading into higher education of a wider political trend, especially on 바카라사이트 right, in which authority and attention?are driven more by celebrity and commotion than by reason and analysis.
That is particularly galling, said Jennifer Garrison, an associate professor of English at St?Mary’s University in Calgary, given that universities already are struggling to give sufficient emphasis to quality teaching.
While Professor Peterson is protected by tenure at Toronto, Dr Garrison said, universities across North America are increasingly turning to low-paid adjuncts to provide much of 바카라사이트 actual teaching.
Beyond all 바카라사이트 harm he causes with his hostile rhetoric, Dr Garrison said, Professor Peterson was a symbol of “this group of professors that we sort of classify as geniuses who we want to have around in universities”. It?is a major mistake in priorities, argued Dr Garrison, 바카라사이트 faculty association president at St?Mary’s.
“We need to start valuing 바카라사이트 academy more,” she said, “so that we’re not looking for celebrities – we’re looking for scholarship.”
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Print headline:?After Cambridge rejection, Toronto sticks with Peterson
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