Three Yale teachers, all frank criticisms of the American president Donald Trumphave left Ivy League University for positions in Canada in the midst of government attacks against higher education.
Yale Daily News announced Thursday that Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy, is going to a new role in the University of Toronto School Mongk of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
He will join the former history teachers of Yale Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore. Snyder and Shore are married and left the United States in the November elections.
Stanley told Daily-ols, a website for philosophy professionals, that despite being happy in Yale, he chose to Leave following the political climate in the United States And because he wants to raise his children in a country “which does not bow to a fascist dictatorship”.
His father and grandmother fled Berlin in 1939, Stanley told Guardian.
In an interview With British publicationsaid recent events at Columbia University – including its decision to follow a government directive ordering a repression against student demonstrations and carrying out an internal examination of its Middle East studies department to avoid $ 400 million in federal funding losses – has played an important role in its decision to go north of the border.
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“When I saw Columbia completely capitulate, and I saw this vocabulary of, well, we will work behind the scenes because we are not going to be targeted-this whole way of thinking before supplementary that certain universities will be targeted, and you do not want to be one of these universities, and it’s just a loss strategy,” he said.
His departure comes for weeks after the American immigration authorities have held the recent graduate of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil At his home in New York for the role he played during demonstrations of the Pro-Palestinian campus last spring.
Khalil is currently held in a detention center in Louisiana. He has permanent legal status in the United States at the time of his arrest, Khalil’s wife, an American citizen, was eight months pregnant.
“Columbia was just such a warning,” said Stanley, adding: “I see Yale trying not to be a target. And, as I said, it’s a losing strategy.” He continued.
The University of Yale has not directly commented on the loss of some of its teachers or the actions of Columbia. However, at the end of January, Maurie Mcinnis, president of Yale, said Yale News The school “favored work with legislators behind the scenes while limiting public declarations”.
“I am not always certain that many public statements make a difference, and I prefer to focus on the work that involves Yale,” she said to publication, saying that the most impactful work is to “continue to defend the mission of higher education with legislators who end up defining political and financial priorities,” she continued.
Yale responded by building various working groups to decipher Trump’s decrees and defending the interests of the university, Yale News reported.
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