Phil Orenstein provides a compendium of coverage, including the most recent, on Barnard professor Abu El-Haj’s bid for tenure.

Why should one care? Because, as Orenstein writes:

The closed fortress of academia must be opened and held accountable to the public. The imminent tenure grant for this professor of questionable qualifications is a perfect example of how academic standards of peer-reviewed research and verifiable fact are being trumped by biased political ideologies.

More on the controversy, kindness of Campus Watch, here, here and here.