Yale University has rejected a call from the Middle East Studies Association for an independent inquiry into the university’s decision not to offer a faculty position in 2006 to Juan Cole, a scholar at the University of Michigan who has a wide following for his blog, which is highly critical of U.S. foreign policy. The association called for such an investigation because of recent reports that the Bush administration was trying to undercut Cole’s reputation at about the same time that Yale was considering and rejecting him for a position.
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