Columbia Professor from Romania Left His Tenured Position Because the University Is “On Its Way to Full Blown Communism”

Professor Andrei Serban, Youtbe
Professor Andrei Serban, an award-winning director originally from Romania, quit his prestigious tenured position at Columbia University because the Ivy League school is “on its way toward full blown communism.” The professor objected to the school’s ban on hiring straight white males, even if they were the most qualified for the job. In addition, he opposed an applicant to the school, a transgender male, who he said was not believable as Juliet. Serban said that he felt that he could not violate his principles.

Pressured to admit transgender student

A Romania-born academic says he recently left his tenured position at Columbia University because the Ivy League school is “on its way toward full blown communism,” according to a Romanian TV interview translated by a Romanian-American immigrant.

Prof. Andrei Serban, an award-winning director, complained about the increasing social justice demands he faced in the theater department in the interview, which aired on Romania’s TVR1 Oct. 26. One prominent example he gave: pressure to admit a transgender applicant who auditioned as Juliet from “Romeo and Juliet.”

Andy Ionescu, a native Romianian speaker who immigrated to the United States in 1999, told The College Fix in a Twitter message that he translated the interview.

He said it was likely the first time that Serban made his resignation publicly known. Columbia still lists Serban as an active professor. Media relations did not respond to an email from The Fix, and Serban’s department did not return a voicemail. Serban did not respond to an email.

The TV host expresses incredulity at multiple points in the interview, seemingly shocked that the American higher education system is headed toward communism. Serban fled from the ideology, which ruled Romania for much of the 20th century.

Serban says in the interview that after a faculty member retired, the remaining professors in the department were called in to a meeting to discuss a replacement.

It was at this meeting that the dean of the art school told them that there were “too many white professors, too many heterosexual men,” and that it would be best to hire a minority or a woman, or a gay man.


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Fastt Ed
Fastt Ed
2 years ago

And this where the late JFK jr went to school ? Time for parents to wake up and pull those young minds out of those weirdo / communist training camps. And they get what, $40K a yr. to screw your kids brains up ?