PRINCETON FREE SPEECH NEWS

EXPLORE COVERAGE >

NATIONAL FREE SPEECH NEWS

EXPLORE COVERAGE >

Did the Top Campus for Student Free Speech Punish Faculty Speech?

Ryan Quinn
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: A free expression group is criticizing the university it ranked No. 1 nationally for student free speech after that same university allegedly punished a professor for using his own speech to criticize a student demonstration.

Carl Blair, a teaching professor in Michigan Technological University’s social sciences department, says Michigan Tech removed him from teaching one of his classes and barred him from contacting students enrolled in it. The public university allegedly did this last month after a national conservative group with campus chapters posted online an audio clip of him during a class, purportedly calling members of that group homophobic, dumb and racist.

Click here for link to full article

Leave a comment

Comments will be approved before showing up.

LATEST ARTICLES