Duke Creates New Committee Dedicated to Academic Freedom
“Academic freedom is fundamental to a university’s core missions of research, teaching and service”
Higher education in the United States needs much more of this.
Campus Reform reports:
Duke forms new committee on academic freedom
Duke University recently announced the creation of its new “Committee to Review State of Academic Freedom, Responsibility, Free Expression and Engagement.”
The committee, composed of 16 professors across a variety of academic disciplines, has been tasked with investigating the impact that Duke’s policies have on academic freedom and making recommendations to the school’s leadership for potential changes.
Trina Jones, chair of the Academic Council at Duke, expressed support for the decision to form the committee, emphasizing its importance in relation to Duke’s purpose as an institution for higher learning.
“The work of this committee is critically important as the issues under consideration go to the heart of the university enterprise,” Jones said. “The Executive Committee of the Academic Council, on behalf of the Academic Council, is pleased to partner with the president and provost on such an important endeavor.”
Provost Alex Gilmore voiced similar sentiments, stressing the importance of academic freedom at Duke.
“Almost 60 years have passed since Duke’s commitment to academic freedom was enshrined in the faculty handbook,” Gallimore said. “Academic freedom is fundamental to a university’s core missions of research, teaching and service, and this is an appropriate time to reflect on and examine Duke’s commitment and related issues of free expression and engagement. I am grateful to my colleagues for agreeing to embark on this great service to Duke.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, one of the nation’s leading free speech watchdogs, currently views Duke as a generally pro-free speech school, ranking it 27th out of 251 schools investigated and rating all but one of its discrimination and/or speech-related policies as “green,” the highest possible rating.
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It would be interesting to see their definition of “freedom”.
and hereeeeeee is ms trina jones:
Jones observed that Duke has made notable progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the past few years, but said this work requires sustained attention and vigilance. Jones hopes that the Academic Council will continue to partner with other Duke units that are involved in measuring and making recommendations on equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Jones is a nationally known expert on racial, socioeconomic and gender inequality, with a particular focus on the workplace. At Duke she directs the Center on Law, Race & Policy, and her teaching has won awards from the Duke Bar Association and the Duke Black Law Students Association.
so once again
alll bs all the time from lefty