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John Warner
Academic Freedom on the Line, Substack
Excerpt: I want to believe at this point that I am immune to shocks to the system when it comes to the current threats against academic freedom - after all, what could be worse than a major university (Columbia) agreeing to be overseen by a government minder in response to overt extortion - but a recent classroom incident at Texas A&M gave me pause and is an indicator of a problem that goes far deeper than a single authoritarian-minded president.
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When university researchers started to receive notice last year that the Trump administration was canceling their grants, they often didn’t get a clear explanation why beyond that their project “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”
A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School.
The growing (though not unanimous) acknowledgement that academia has lost public trust may be increasingly uncontroversial. But identifying remedies to repair that broken trust is proving to be much more contested.
