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Justin McBrayer, Michael Jindra, and Ashley Rubin
Free the Inquiry, Heterodox Academy
Can faculty lead the reform of higher education from the inside — and if so, who checks whom?
In this virtual panel, Heterodox Academy’s Justin McBrayer convened four scholars to talk through the nuts and bolts of faculty-initiated reform: how to build checks and balances into hiring and curriculum, where administrators and trustees fit in, and how to strengthen open inquiry and viewpoint diversity without inviting the kind of top-down censorship that undermines academic freedom.
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The recent report on the state of scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences has renewed the debate over the internal politicization of academe. As one of its authors (speaking only for myself), I find the report relatively tepid.
Anonymous sources told The New York Times that Yale has sought a deal with the federal government to end an investigation into its undergraduate and graduate admissions, and has hired the law firm that helped the University of Virginia settle last fall.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AFT Connecticut, Yale AAUP and the national AFT sent a letter to the Yale University Board of Trustees, urging them to reject any negotiated, closed-door settlement with the Trump administration regarding its admissions practices. The coalition warns that making concessions under political pressure would compromise Yale’s academic freedom, shared governance, and institutional independence.
