Christopher Eisgruber Office of the President, Princeton University
Excerpt: Given the importance of academic freedom to what we do, I wanted to begin the year by reaffirming this University’s steadfast support for it. I say this now because it has unfortunately become common for university faculty members here and elsewhere to become the target of viral social media storms focused on controversial materials that they assign or teach. That has sometimes extended to demands that the University should ban or condemn a book, cancel a course, or discipline a professor.
We of course will not do that. Academic freedom protects your right to decide what to teach and how to teach it. That right, like the right to free speech on campus, is very broad indeed, and we will protect it.
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