Stanford Civics Initiative to hire 10 new humanities faculty, drawing disagreement over Hoover ties

The Stanford Civics Initiative (SCI) is planning a large cluster hire in the humanities. SCI hopes to hire 10 new senior tenure-track faculty, with four current searches ongoing for two funded positions in the political science, classics, history and philosophy departments. Some members of the history faculty, several of whom spoke to The Daily, have criticized the decision. The concerns they have expressed within the department focus on whether the Civics Initiative could interfere with departmental hiring practices and whether the hire will be influenced by the Hoover Institution.

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