BY DANIEL A. SEGAL Academe Blog published the author’s post, “The AAUP Errs in Endorsing Cait Conley for Congress,” along with a response by Giulia Zanni, Robert Newton, Ezra Susser, Sarah Borden, Susan Witte, and Page Fortna, “Why We Stand by the AAUP’s Endorsement of Cait Conley.” Below is Segal’s reply to that response. I…
BY GIULIA ZANNI, ROBERT NEWTON, EZRA SUSSER, SARAH BORDEN, SUSAN WITTE, AND PAGE FORTNA Below is a response to Daniel A. Segal’s post, “The AAUP Errs in Endorsing Cait Conley for Congress.” Segal’s subsequent reply to this response is also being published on the blog. We are grateful to Academe Blog for publishing Daniel A.…
BY DANIEL A. SEGAL Academe Blog is publishing a response to this post by Giulia Zanni, Robert Newton, Ezra Susser, Sarah Borden, Susan Witte, and Page Fortna, “Why We Stand by the AAUP’s Endorsement of Cait Conley,” and Segal’s reply to that response. As part of its new program of political endorsements, the AAUP has…
BY DON ERON The AAUP’s recent statement On Title VI, Discrimination, and Academic Freedom is a potentially useful report that self-destructs with the use of a single quote, on which the report—and the organization as a whole—wages its credibility. As a result, nobody who doesn’t already agree with everything the report says is likely to take it, or…
BY MAX WEISS “I am anti-Israel, I am anti-Zionist also, but I am NOT anti-Jewish.” So said Palestinian intellectual Fayez A. Sayegh in 1956. I was reminded of this statement, a sentiment I personally share, on October 2, when members of the Princeton community received an email from Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity…
BY HILTON OBENZINGER Dear Claire Shipman, President, Columbia University. I received your letter and other notices about Columbia’s settlement with the Trump administration, and I’m disappointed and angry. I know you have a tough job, but perhaps unwittingly you harmed me. By agreeing to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, you have turned…
BY BROOKE LOBER, ELI MEYERHOFF, AND EMILY SCHNEIDER The climate on American university campuses is dangerous. Administrators ban protests for Palestinian rights. Immigration and Customs Enforcement snatches students off the streets. The Trump administration revokes hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for research. And all this is done in the name of protecting Jewish…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement is republished here with permission of its organizers. The statement with a regularly updated list of signatories may also be found here. As Jewish faculty and staff at Northwestern University, we write today to defend the values of academic freedom, pluralism and independence that animate Northwestern and undergird…
BY DENISE L. DAVIS As we at Brown University wait for the other shoe to drop, we are mobilizing in support of the university’s principles, as expressed by President Christina H. Paxson, and urging the university administration to take an uncompromising stance when it comes to preserving free inquiry, ensuring the safety of non-US citizens…