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Accreditation and Academic Freedom
The AAUP and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation have just issued an advisory statement on “Accreditation and Academic Freedom,” and I find it a very disappointing document. One indication...
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Banning Ag Research at Iowa State
Michael Gartner has an excellent op-ed in the Des Moines Register today about the serious threat to academic freedom posed by Iowa State president Steve Leath, who has banned the Harkin Institute from...
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AAUP Report on University of Northern Iowa
The AAUP has issued a report on the University of Northern Iowa (pdf), finding that the university had “no legitimate basis, financial or otherwise” to terminate faculty appointments and failed to...
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Students Return to WZRD
After more than six months of being locked out of their radio station, WZRD, students at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) have finally been allowed back into their station, and returned to the...
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New AAUP Report on Financial Exigency
The AAUP has just issued a new report on “The Role of the Faculty in Conditions of Financial Exigency.” The report “insists that faculty members must be involved in consultation and deliberation at...
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A Politician Becomes a President at Purdue
Mitch Daniels, the former Republican governor of Indiana and the new president of Purdue University, has issued a thoughtful open letter in which he recounts some of the attack leveled against higher...
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Interview with Author Marjorie Heins
Marjorie Heins, founder of The Free Expression Policy Project, is the author of the new book Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge (NYU Press,...
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Political Courage for Academic Freedom in New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spoken out against the forces of repression in the controversy over speakers supporting Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Here’s his full statement:...
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A Sex Ed Ban Reversed at North Dakota State
North Dakota State University has reversed its ban on a grant involving Planned Parenthood that sparked outrage from Republican politicians. Last month, NDSU president Dean Bresciani announced that a...
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The Porn Star Banned From Pasadena
Last week, porn star James Deen spoke to a class at Pasadena City College, but administrators banned a planned public event with Deen. In a press release misleadingly titled, “PCC Instructor Agrees To...
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Ward Churchill’s Last Appeal
The US Supreme Court has rejected Ward Churchill’s final appeal of his firing by the University of Colorado, and an ugly chapter in the history of academic freedom will now be left to the history books...
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A Failed Attack on Bowdoin by the NAS
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) just released a 359-page report (pdf) attacking Bowdoin College that proves one essential point: don’t criticize rich guys you golf with. The rich guy in this...
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AAUP Reports on Faculty Rights and Academic Freedom
The AAUP released several important reports this week that deserve a close reading. The AAUP Statement on the Affordable Care Act and Part-Time Faculty Positions criticizes colleges that seek to deny...
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Limbaugh’s Lies about Bowdoin College
Yesterday on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh read a Wall Street Journal article summarizing the National Association of Scholars (NAS) study about Bowdoin, and quoted the finding that Bowdoin doesn’t...
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Demonstrated Incompetence at Brooklyn Law School
I am always amazed how some administrations defend themselves, as Brooklyn Law School Dean Nicholas Allard does, by claiming that the AAUP has somehow authorized their dubious actions. Allard claims...
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The Truth about the IRS “Scandal”
The IRS scrutiny and delays aimed at Tea Party nonprofit groups has received enormous media and political attention. There’s nothing illegal, or scandalous, about these disturbing investigations of...
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The Real Scandal of Targeting Nonprofit Groups
The IRS “scandal” has generated enormous outrage from conservatives and the mainstream press alike. According to Republican politicians, it is absolutely unacceptable for the government to target...
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AAUP Votes to Censure National Louis University and Southern University,...
On June 15, the American Association of University Professors at its annual meeting voted unanimously to place National Louis University of Illinois and Southern University, Baton Rouge on its list of...
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Peter Wood’s Attack on the AAUP
I invited National Association of Scholars president Peter Wood to speak at the AAUP conference this past weekend, and organized a couple of sessions with him on the Higher Education Bubble and the NAS...
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A Firing at Weber State
InsideHigherEd reports on the case of Jared Lisonbee, a tenure-track professor at Weber State in Utah who was fired after only two years, and who had criticized the decision to name a center at Weber...
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