by Steven Pinker and Bertha Madras, Boston Globe
We have joined with 50 colleagues to create a new Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard. It’s not about us. For many years we have each expressed strong and often unorthodox opinions with complete freedom and with the support, indeed warm encouragement, of our colleagues, deans, and presidents.April 12, 20231 min read
We have joined with 50 colleagues to create a new Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard. It’s not about us. For many years we have each expressed strong and often unorthodox opinions with complete freedom and with the support, indeed warm encouragement, of our colleagues, deans, and presidents.
Emma Pettit, Chronicle of Higher Education
The governing board overseeing Florida’s public universities on Wednesday approved a post-tenure-review process that allows for poorly performing professors to be fired.March 29, 20231 min read
The governing board overseeing Florida’s public universities on Wednesday approved a post-tenure-review process that allows for poorly performing professors to be fired.
Sabrina Conza
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Mar 16, 2023
Excerpt: Following two letters from FIRE, the University of Alabama committed to protecting even offensive viewpoints on campus. This comes after the university announced an investigation of pro-Kanye West chalk messages on its sidewalks, saying the messages did not align with its “core values.”March 07, 20231 min read
Princeton University celebrated Constitution Day in mid-September with an event featuring a panel of academics who spent 90 minutes deriding the country’s founding document as "a tool of geopolitical gaslighting" that "furthers a racial crisis and a democratic crisis."
