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Getting Back to Consensus

BY AARON BARLOW What the Eric Rasmusen situation at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business (read more about that here and here) brings to the fore is a slipping away from any sort of consensus about what a professor should be and what a student should expect. IU Provost Lauren Robel tried to respond to…

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business

On Indiana University’s Response to Professor Rasmusen

BY HANK REICHMAN Recently I was asked by a publication with an audience of college and university administrators what advice I might have about how to respond to attacks on faculty members’ extramural expression.  I said this: “No matter how controversial the faculty member’s alleged expression may be, do not apologize for it or formally…