POSTED BY KELLY HAND We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 8 of the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. The journal features recent scholarship on academic freedom and its relation to shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining. Highlights from the volume include an article by Andrew Ross on academic labor and human rights at…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Milo Yiannopoulos’ much-hyped Free Speech Week at Berkeley has disappeared, not with a bang but with a whimper. The whimper came yesterday when Milo made a brief appearance on Sproul Plaza, where he sang the Star-Spangled Banner (without kneeling) and left about 30 minutes later. Berkeley spent an estimated $800,000 on…
BY HANK REICHMAN Clownish self-promoting bigot Milo Yiannopoulos fulfilled his pledge to speak on Sunday at the University of California at Berkeley campus, despite the cancellation the previous day of his fraudulent “Free Speech Week.” According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the bigoted bozo blew kisses, signed autographs and took selfies for about 15 minutes…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH At the beginning of September, Jonathan Zimmerman wrote an article for Salon titled “Don’t Tape Our Teachers: Why Surreptitious Recording in the Classroom Isn’t OK.” Zimmerman surveys a number of recent instances in which teachers have expressed strong political opinions that have surreptitiously been recorded by students, that have then been…
BY HANK REICHMAN By now regular readers of this blog are probably aware that the long-floundering “Free Speech Week” that bigot-provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was allegedly “organizing” at the University of California at Berkeley this week has been canceled. Ever the blustering bozo, Milo, however, has vowed to speak on campus tomorrow (Sunday) no matter what.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for Business Insider, Sam Shead has been tracking an escalating dust-up between Oxford and Cambridge Universities over which elite institution provides a better environment for digital start-ups. The two institutions have obviously been competing in academics, athletics, and many other areas for centuries, and this competition over digital start-ups existed…
BY HANK REICHMAN When it was first published by the Brookings Institution last week a survey of over 1,500 college students seemed to provide chilling support for those free speech alarmists who claim that intolerant college students pose a major danger to freedom of speech. According to the survey of students conducted by John Villasenor, a…
BY HANK REICHMAN According to a report on the website turkeypurge.com, 5,717 teachers at 117 universities have been dismissed from their jobs in Turkey due to government decrees issued under a state of emergency following the failed coup of July 2016. A total of nine government decrees issued between September 2016 and August 2017 dismissed…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following open letter first appeared on Dreamer Hugo Diaz’s Facebook page. It has subsequently been disseminated by several national and international news sources. After our month of hurricanes, some of the details especially resonate. More broadly, Hugo Diaz presents a very personalized and authentic account of his experience that both…
BY JONATHAN MARKS Guest blogger Jonathan Marks teaches political philosophy at Ursinus College. John Villasenor, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute is only the latest commentator to worry aloud about our college young, who don’t understand or value freedom of expression. A survey he conducted contains familiar bad news. A majority of respondents holds…