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Commentary: The AAUP abandons its mission to defend academic freedom

Jerry Coyne
Why Evolution is True

Excerpt: In less than a year, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has completely abandoned its mission.

As U. Chicago law professor Tom Ginsburg points out in a Chronicle of Higher Education piece, however, the AAUP, however, has taken several positions within the last year that are either inimical or orthogonal to academic freedom. To put it frankly, the AAUP has become authoritarian, adhering to “progressive” politics and abandoning those precepts that it once adopted to further academic freedom.

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