Academic Freedom Tag

Stifling Debate And Purging Dissenters At Georgetown Law Over Ilya Shapiro

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2022 32 Comments

Nate Hochman: "Campus groups ban dissent, professors lead Zoom therapy sessions, and some students privately admit that 'we only want Ilya fired because of his conservative political views.'"...

Georgetown Law Student Protesters Demand Ilya Shapiro Firing, Reparations, Place To Cry, End To “Originalist” Center

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2022 81 Comments

There seems to be a pre-existing unhappiness at Georgetown Law that erupted with Shapiro's tweets the spark. "One student floated the idea of defunding the Center for the Constitution...

Profile In Cowardice: Georgetown Law Dean Bill Treanor Suspends Conservative Legal Scholar Ilya Shapiro

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2022 49 Comments

"Georgetown’s embarrassing capitulation [to the "online outrage"] is antithetical to the tenets of liberal education...

Membership Voting To Ratify Anti-Israel Academic Boycott Starts At Middle East Studies Association

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 31, 2022 7 Comments

MESA members have from January 31-March 22 to decide whether to ratify a pro-BDS resolution, based on the resolution's unsubstantiated claims. MESA members' request for a discussion forum where resolution supporters can offer support for their claims has so far gone unanswered....

UIC Law Prof. Jason Kilborn Sues After University Tried To Force Him Into Humiliating Racial Reeducation Program

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2022 14 Comments

Used letters "N" and "B" on exam hypo about employment discrimination, leading to campaign to fire him. The FIRE notes: "In a stunning display of unintended irony, the individualized training materials [UIC tried to force on Kilborn] include the same redacted slur that Kilborn used in his test question." ...

Cancel Culture Win: U. North Texas Prof. Timothy Jackson’s Free Speech And Defamation Case Can Move Forward, Court Rules

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2022 9 Comments

Prof. Jackson was swept up in the cancel culture mania that swept academia in the summer of 2020, as BLM riots swept cities. He wasn't fired, but sues alleging his free speech rights were violated and he was defamed....

The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Of Prof. Jason Kilborn by U. Illinois-Chicago John Marshall Law School

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2021 67 Comments

UIC has imposed a reeducation and supervision program to publicly humiliate and demean a professor that would make the Maoist Red Guards blush. It is psychologically torturing a professor just because it thinks it can....

Minding the Campus Introduces ‘Award’ for Suppression of Academic Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 29, 2021 1 Comment

“This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9WNmFVuv4I

Cancel Culture Fail: Thousands Register for Lecture at Princeton by Prof Axed by MIT Over Twitter Mob

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 12, 2021 13 Comments

University of Chicago geophysics professor Dorian Abbot was supposed to give a lecture at MIT until the school caved to a campus mob over Abbot's unwoke views on diversity. His lecture got picked up by Princeton University instead and thousands of people have signed up for it.

MIT Cancels Lecture By U. Chicago Geophysicist Dorian Abbot Under Pressure From Campus Mob (Update)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2021 42 Comments

"Those who pressured MIT to cancel Dr. Abbot's lecture oppose his views on "diversity, equity, and inclusion""...

Liberal Cornell Students Decry “Campus Hostility Towards Free Speech and Open Dialogue”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2021 14 Comments

Confirms what I have been pointing out for years: "many Cornellians are scared to challenge the progressive status quo and speak in opposition to those pushing ideological conformity"...

Pacific U Fires Tenured Professor For Supposedly Insensitive Statements Like “Every Person Has A Gender”

Posted by Jeff Reynolds on August 31, 2021 30 Comments

Dr. Richard Paxton has sued, asserting the university violated its own commitment to academic freedom, due process, and civil rights....

Critical Race Theory Permeates North Carolina Schools, Task Force Formed By Lt. Gov. Finds

Posted by Jeff Reynolds on August 26, 2021 10 Comments

One teacher said, "I pray you can do something to fix what is going on so I can continue to believe in what I do."...

U. Nebraska Regents Rejects Resolution Calling For Academic Freedom From Critical Race Mandates

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2021 12 Comments

NU does not currently mandate CRT study or training, but it missed an opportunity to make a powerful statement in favor of the academic freedom to be free from CRT mandates....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8KLnvgk6Mw

The FIRE Warns Of “Threat to Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression at Cornell” From CRT Mandates (Update)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2021 11 Comments

Foundation for Individual Rights In Education: "the proposal raises concerns that faculty will be compelled to affirm and promote certain views as a condition of their employment and eligibility for promotion and tenure, contrary to Cornell’s robust promises of free expression and academic freedom."...

Survey Finds Greek Life Students Feel Their Freedoms Are Under Assault

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 23, 2021 0 Comments

“afraid that whatever they say is going to come back to haunt them”...

In Memory of Marquette Prof. John McAdams, Who Won Free Speech Case Against School

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 19, 2021 3 Comments

In 2014, Marquette University suspended Professor John McAdams for criticizing a graduate assistant who said she would not tolerate dissent on the issue of gay marriage. McAdams, who taught political science, noted that Marquette is a Catholic school and wrote about this incident on his blog.

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