Defending Academic Freedom Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE SEP 26, 2020 8:00 AM

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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