Defending Academic Freedom Week in Higher Education

Defending Academic Freedom Week in Higher Education

When it comes to freedom and the left’s vision of America, professors must realize what is at stake.

• USC Faces Backlash for Punishing Prof Over Word That Sounded Like a Slur in Chinese
• Prof Who Refused Mandatory Diversity Training Has Kept His Job
• FIRE Comes to Defense of Prof Suspended for Using Term ‘Wuhan Flu’ on Syllabus

Speaking of the left’s vision…

• Radford University Encourages Students to Attend BLM Protest Despite Coronavirus Restrictions
• Swarthmore College Student Newspaper Calls for Mandatory Critical Race Theory for Graduation
• Technical Writing Course at Clemson U. Allegedly Transformed Into Social Justice Seminar

Did both of these situations warrant a response?

• U. Cincinnati Investigating Instructor Who Used the Term ‘Chinese Virus’ in Email to Students
• VIDEO: Prof Suspended After Telling Students She Hopes Trump Supporters Die of Coronavirus

Really?

• Prof Suggests Trump Supporters Who Refuse to Wear Masks Are White Supremacists

Just a slight overreaction.

• Mount Holyoke Students Outraged That School Wouldn’t Cancel Off-Campus Pro-Police Rally

Weren’t we told that police are bad?

• Harvard Dean Says School Will Use Police to Enforce Social Distancing Rules

Fantastic!

• CBS News Feature About Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College Wins Emmy Award

This is ridiculous.

• Online Student Suspended Indefinitely From NYU for Attending Party

It’s just about Confederates, they said.

• U. Missouri Forced to Place Protective Case Around Thomas Jefferson Tombstone

Sure it isn’t.

• NYU Student Newspaper Insists Black-Only Housing is Not a Form of Segregation

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