BY JOHN K. WILSON The David Horowitz Freedom Center this month announced yet another campaign aimed at censoring free speech on college campuses. The latest effort is a Facebook ad targeting four left-leaning “America-hating” professors that the Horowitz Center claims has reached 100,000 people. One ad warns the University of Washington, “You have an AMERICA…
BY IRENE MULVEY In a December 7 virtual listening session on higher education with the Biden-Harris transition team and other higher ed advocacy organizations, AAUP president Irene Mulvey delivered remarks about planning for a better future for higher education; supporting students, faculty, and staff; and repealing Trump administration policies. Thank you for inviting the AAUP…
BY MATTHEW W. FINKIN Philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson died on November 20 at the age of ninety-one. Matthew W. Finkin remembers her and her service to the AAUP below. Philosophy has lost a luminary. The AAUP has lost a stalwart. I have lost a friend. In philosophy, one need only glimpse at the Encyclopedia of…
POSTED BY JOHN K. WILSON Here is an event being held this afternoon by the AAUP’s University of Virginia chapter. In 2013, the AAUP issued a report on shared governance issues at the University of Virginia. The UVA Chapter of the American Association of University Professors presents: “When Did Tenured Faculty Give Up on Governance?…
BY HANK REICHMAN No sooner had I posted my piece on Scott Atlas, Stanford, and the Hoover Institution than I received from a colleague a link to an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Where Academic Freedom Ends,” by Harvard education professor Julia A. Reuben, also prompted, it seems, at least in part by…
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BY IRENE MULVEY The following letter from AAUP president Irene Mulvey was emailed to AAUP members on November 10: The voters have spoken. Unprecedented voter turnout has affirmed the strength of our democracy. Like others who value education and truth, science and facts, Black lives and human rights, we breathed a collective sigh of relief…
BY THE NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP The National Coalition Against Censorship today sent this letter, co-signed by the AAUP, to Zoom, Facebook, and Youtube regarding the censorship of an event at San Francisco State University. October 8, 2020 Dear Mr. Yuan, Mr. Zuckerberg, and Ms. Wojcicki: As organizations dedicated to protecting freedom of expression, the…
BY IRENE MULVEY AAUP president Irene Mulvey issued the following statement yesterday. On June 1, my predecessor, Rudy Fichtenbaum, issued a statement on protests that occurred in response to the murder of George Floyd. He acknowledged that “institutions of higher education have been part of the problem” of systemic racism, but said that “they can…