Report Summary of the Ad-hoc Committee on the Historian Column

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Report Summary of the Ad-hoc Committee on the Historian Column Sunday February 10, 2019

Committee Committee membership Salim El Rouayheb (Chair) Matthieu Bloch Elza Erkip Tara Javidi Daniela Tuninetti. Motion passed at BoG meeting October 2018 “To appoint an ad-hoc committee to handle the revision and possible publication of the historian’s column and any opinion pieces regarding the column.”

Decision Process The committee collected information on the column, investigated the historical precedents and the formal editorial process of the NL The committee sought input from a wide range of IT Society members This included several rounds of interactions with Professor Ephremides The committee was unanimous in its findings and final recommendations to the BOG

Different Opinions on the HC The committee noted that HC was perceived very differently by different members of the BoG and the IT Society. Some perceived the column as a thinly veiled attack on members of IT and ML communities who publicly criticized Professor Ephremides’ support letter in the Princeton Title IX case. Some found the column inappropriate as a HC, and noted the absence of historical content apart from vague references to a golden-era, and perceived its message as berating new-comers and younger generation. Some viewed the column as Professor Ephremides’ best effort at providing an olive branch of hope coming out of this rough time. Some appreciated the fact that the column does not name individuals, and does not even refer to specific events

Decision About HC The committee reached out to Professor Ephremides and summarized the above grievances; however, he did not acknowledge their validity.   Given the limited scope of the BoG’s directive to the committee, and lack of formal editorial processes for the NL the committee did not feel that it had the mandate to pronounce one reading more valid than the other, and thus decided to publish HC unaltered along with a report summary They are now published in the latest issue (December 2018) of the NL

Observations The committee noted that the Society Bylaws do not specify an editorial committee for the NL except for the NL editor. Also, the committee expressed concerns with the vague role and appointment process of the current NL editorial committee, as well as the purely default (re-)appointment of individuals in certain roles, such as the Historian, over multiple decades. The committee concluded that the practice of privileging an individual with a regular column without a formal process is outdated and problematic.  

Recommendations The committee recommends the BoG to prioritize a set of bylaw revisions to constitute a formal process for the selection and the appointment of the NL editorial board according to established academic standards and best practices regarding diversity and inclusion. The committee recommends the BoG to guide the newly formed NL editorial committee to institute a set of guidelines for contributed columns, including contributor term limits, and formal ways of reviewing content. The committee strongly recommends that the NL stops the publication of such contributed columns until the formal guidelines are in place.