academic freedom

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  10/15/2021
  

  The Critique of "Grand Strategy" at Yale is Decades Overdue

  by Jim Sleeper

  In a changing world, Yale's decision to follow the lead of influential donors to steer its Grand Strategy program toward the established orthodoxy of the national security state doesn't just fail the principles of liberal education, it fails the long-term ability of the United States to steer a course in world affairs.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/5/2021
  

  A Pyrrhic Victory for Plutocrats at Yale?

  by Daniel Drezner

  "Everyone in the academy is now fully aware of just how far Yale’s administration is willing to warp academic freedom in the pursuit of donor management. To say this is not a good look for an institution that relies on prestige and recognition would be an understatement."

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• SOURCE: Hechinger Report
  9/28/2021
  

  Observe "Banned Book Week" by Standing Up for Academic Freedom

  by David Wippman and Glenn Altschuler

  "When school boards or legislators with little or no subject matter or pedagogical expertise ban books or direct how certain subjects should be taught, education is impoverished, and everyone loses."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/30/2021
  

  Beverly Gage Resigns from Yale's Grand Strategy Program, Citing Political Pressure from Large Donors

  After a colleague wrote an op ed critical of Donald Trump in 2020, two Republican donors insisted on appointing an advisory board to the Grand Strategy program which included, against Professor Gage's wishes, Henry Kissinger.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  9/28/2021
  

  Israeli Diplomat Pressured UNC to Cancel Grad Student Instructor's Course on Israel-Palestine Conflict

  "Kylie Broderick had expected scrutiny some of her teaching. What she did not was the degree to which the smear campaign against her would balloon, up to and including interventions from officials of two governments."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/17/2021
  

  The First Casualty in the War on Critical Race Theory

  "I don’t ask the students to subscribe to any ideas. I don’t ask them to base their opinions on materials that we read. I just ask that they critically evaluate it and understand it. We evaluate claims. That’s all that we do." 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/16/2021
  

  Win for Academic Freedom in Nebraska

  "Jeannette Eileen Jones, associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the flagship Lincoln campus, said it's "disingenuous" to paint discussions involving critical race theory or race in general as divisive or anti-American."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/16/2021
  

  Appeals Court Sides with Polish Holocaust Historians

  The decision is seen as a victory for historians and academic freedom in a Polish political climate where denying Polish complicity in the Holocaust is part of right-wing politics. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/9/2021
  

  Faculty, We Have Met the Enemy, and it is Us

  by Henry Reichman

  The outgoing chair of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure argues that events at the University of Mississippi are a warning that shared governance won't protect faculty unless they exercise it diligently. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8/3/2021
  

  A Wakeup for the Left on Free Speech?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Liberals who seek to restrict hurtful speech shouldn't be surprised when conservative lawmakers apply that principle to regulate what can be taught in history classrooms. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  7/30/2021
  

  Emails Show U of Mississippi Officials Concerned that Fired Historian Criticized Private Prison Ties, Upset Donors

  "Felber drew a line between the university’s history of slavery, its hand in the creation of the slave plantation-like Parchman Prison and one celebrated instructor’s financial ties to a private-prison corporation."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/22/2021
  

  How Professor Van Winkle Woke Up to Viewpoint Diversity

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Could one of today's professors wake up from a twenty-year nap to a climate of productive and open classroom discussion? 

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• SOURCE: Martinsville (VA) Bulletin
  7/10/2021
  

  The Republican Party of Virginia isn't Happy with Larry Sabato's Tweets

  "Offering a response to Anderson’s criticism, Sabato tweeted Thursday night: 'Thanks to the Republicans for the hearty laugh you’ve given me...There goes my reserved seat at your next #insurrection'."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/5/2021
  

  We Disagree on a Lot of Things. Except the Danger of Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws

  by Kmele Foster, David French, Jason Stanley and Thomas Chatterton Williams

  Political Philosopher Jason Stanley is part of an ideologically diverse group of writers who, regardless of their view of antiracist politics and discourse, condemn the passage of laws restricting the teaching of "critical race theory." 

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• SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  7/6/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement After Passing Up UNC for Howard University

  “I cannot imagine working at and advancing a school named for a man who lobbied against me, who used his wealth to influence the hires and ideology of the journalism school, who ignored my 20 years of journalism experience, all of my credentials, all of my work, because he believed that a project that centered Black Americans equaled the denigration of white Americans."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/1/2021
  

  The ACLU on Fighting Critical Race Theory Bans: ‘It’s About Our Country Reckoning with Racism’

  Historian Adam Laats give background to an interview with ACLU Staff Attorney Emerson Sykes about the climate of backlash and censorship around teaching the history of racism in America, comparing it to the 1920s uproar over the teaching of evolution. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  6/30/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Finally Has Been Granted Tenure. But the Damage Is Already Done.

  It's uncertain that the Board of Trustees' decision to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones will lead her to join the University of North Carolina, and unlikely that the decision will erase the damage done by conservative interference in university governance. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/30/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Granted Tenure by UNC Trustees

  The vote was 9-4, after a number of protesters were removed from the room. It is not now known if Hannah-Jones will now accept the appointment at UNC. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/29/2021
  

  Finally: Tenure Vote for Hannah-Jones

  by Colleen Flaherty

  The Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a special meeting Wednesday, reportedly to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  6/30/2021
  

  Will Bunch: Campus ‘Red Scare’ takes Florida back to the ’50s

  Columnist Will Bunch argues that the nationwide attack on "Critical Race Theory" echoes the anticommunist politics Hofstadter described in "The Paranoid Style," which he discusses with education professor Robert Dahlgren.