From a probing article by Steven Plaut at FrontPageMagazine.com on Norman Finkelstein’s bid for tenure at De Paul:

The most notorious example in recent days of corruption of the promotion process has been the attempt by radical leftist faculty members at DePaul University to obtain tenure for the pseudo-scholar and Holocaust trivializer Norman Finkelstein. The Finkelstein affair is unusual in that the politicization has been exposed so thoroughly in the media and is now so obvious and explicit. In part, this has been thanks to the fact that Finkelstein himself, or his close followers, have published the supposedly classified secret documents related to his promotion on the web. How can it be that someone like Finkelstein was hired in the first place, especially by an institution with ties to the church and committed to Catholic ethical standards? Ironically, the answer was provided inadvertently by Finkelstein and his followers when they publicized (probably illegally) these key documents related to his tenure bid. These documents show how easy it is for extremists with no scholarly credentials to recruit on their behalf respected academics who share their political agenda. (bolding mine)

Is consistency between institutional mission and hiring/promotion processes too much to ask? Where are the higher education leaders able to stand up to extremists? Those at DePaul who care about the integrity of the Catholic-Vincentian academic ethos now have a rare opportunity to explain and defend this philosophy and, indeed, the neglected notion that ethical standards count in the appointment and promotion of professors.