In a recent survey of college professors, 71% believe that campus carry laws “will have a negative impact on the free and robust exchange of ideas at my university.”
Topic: academic free speech
Drexel Faculty Investigates Conduct by Professor after Tweet about Airline Passenger Giving Up Seat for Uniformed Soldier
Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher is in trouble again, this time for tweeting about an American soldier getting a seat on an airplane. He got in trouble last December for tweeting he wanted a white genocide for Christmas.
Liberals Endangered in Own Natural Habitat: Liberal Colleges
At Skidmore College, where there are no immediately identifiable conservatives, faculty members have started to intimidate liberals with stray thoughts. Robert Boyers, an English professor at Skidmore, recounted a couple of recent episodes in The…
Conservative Professor, Suspended from Marquette over Academic Speech, Receives Award
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in the D.C. metropolitan area, suspended Marquette University professor John McAdams received an award championing academic speech. McAdams is suing Marquette over his suspension, which came from…
Marquette Won’t Lift Suspension on Conservative Professor Until He Apologizes
From Campus Reform over John McAdams’ suspension at Marquette: Dr. John McAdams has been on paid suspension since December 2014 for a blog post in which he calls out another instructor, Cheryl Abbate, for telling students not…
Princeton Librarian at Center of Controversy on Free Speech
From the College Fix: Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez, the librarian at Princeton University, apparently believes it is her duty to “silence” those who think “microaggressions” aren’t a real thing. As reported by Heat Street, in a correspondence with…
NYU Professor Put on Paid Leave for Criticizing Safe Spaces, PC Culture
Michael Rectenwald had created an anonymous Twitter account that was critical of safe spaces and coddling of college students, in addition to the politically correct culture on his college campus. His reward? Pushed to take…
South African University Withdraws Speaking Engagement of Mohammed Cartoon Editor
Nixing a speech by the former editor who published cartoons of Mohammed is what the vice chancellor of South Africa’s University of Cape Town suggested to the university’s academic freedom committee.
John McAdams Punished With Longer Suspension, Forced Apology
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in the AAUP’s Academe Blog. Marquette University yesterday announced the punishment of John McAdams for his crime of publicly criticizing a graduate student teacher’s pedagogy on his blog: He will…
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Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
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