Middle East studies in the News

Muzzling a Watchdog? [on Sharad Karkhanis; incl. Mohammed Yousry, Susan Rosenberg]

by Scott Jaschik
Inside Higher Ed
November 2, 2007

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/02/suit

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4381

No one could accuse Sharad Karkhanis of pulling his punches. The emeritus professor at Kingsborough Community College publishes The Patriot Returns, an online newsletter that critiques the leadership of the faculty union at the City University of New York. The overall thrust of the newsletter is that the Professional Staff Congress, which is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, is poorly run, focused too much on leftist politics to be effective on behalf of its members.

By carefully monitoring meeting minutes, newsletters, blogs and the like, Karkhanis acts as a self-appointed watchdog of the union. And he can bark. He mixes his analysis with choice nicknames. Barbara Bowen, the president of the union, is dubbed "Dear Leader," after the North Korean dictator.

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