Shapiro Takes On The Mantle of Academic Freedom and Free Speech Advocate As Efforts To Cancel Him Continue...
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.'"...
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...
"Georgetown’s embarrassing capitulation [to the "online outrage"] is antithetical to the tenets of liberal education...
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....
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." ...
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....
"Western universities have gradually but decisively moved away from the Enlightenment ideal."...
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....
“This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated”...
"Those who pressured MIT to cancel Dr. Abbot's lecture oppose his views on "diversity, equity, and inclusion""...
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"...
Dr. Richard Paxton has sued, asserting the university violated its own commitment to academic freedom, due process, and civil rights....
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."...
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....
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."...
“afraid that whatever they say is going to come back to haunt them”...
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