More on the New Taboo: Accurately Quoting Source Documents in University Classrooms
Rutgers Law School, the National Coalition on Censorship, and the Washington Post.
Rutgers Law School, the National Coalition on Censorship, and the Washington Post.
"All the times," "sometimes," or "rarely"? A prominent public university's training module requires faculty to give a particular answer.
A CNN story on the Rutgers law school controversy; the settlement agreement in the firing of Central Michigan University professor Tim Boudreau; and the views of Prof. Nadine Strossen, former President of the ACLU.
Above the Law refused to publish our reply, so we're publishing it here.
Punishing players for kneeling, or not kneeling, is a First Amendment violation at public universities.
"[Daniel] Pollack-Pelzner ... is [also] one of many Linfield faculty members and students who have pushed back against the allegedly poor handling of sexual abuse and [harassment] claims by the administration."
The article is co-written by Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard), a leading scholar of race and the law, and me.
Now 14 states have legislation explicitly protecting free speech on campus.
The mandatory online training requires users to select the “right” speech before they finish.
"Terror and dread fill academic workers, professors, and staff alike, and it is everywhere."
Kieran Bhattacharya's First Amendment lawsuit can proceed, a court said.
An interesting controversy involving Portland State University.
A free online conference sponsored by the LeFrak Forum on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy at Michigan State University.
The chaos at Lake Washington Institute of Technology is by no means an isolated occurrence.
A federal appellate court lets a professor's First Amendment claim go forward, in an opinion that powerfully protects faculty academic freedom more broadly.
That’s a clearly established constitutional mandate, the Eighth Circuit holds, so a university can’t get qualified immunity from liability in such a case.
In context, it seems clear that the post's reference to "Chinese" is indeed a reference to the Chinese government, not to people of Chinese extraction.
... about there being disproportionate number of black students near the bottom of a class.
Compare: “With the exception of traditionally black law schools ..., the median black law school grade point average is at the 6.7th percentile of white law students.”
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A new group defending professorial speech is launched
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is suing on her behalf.
"The University’s responsibility to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression cannot be outsourced."
An interesting ruling involving the University of Minnesota, by Judge Patrick Schiltz (himself a former professor).
May public schools punish students for off-campus social media posts?
No, not me! More on the University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School / Professor Jason Kilborn controversy.
A controversy at the University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School (not to be confused with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) gets results.
Words to live by from the President of the University of Chicago, in response to demands to punish a professor who spoke out against various "diversity, equity and inclusion" programs.
"He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia."
Seems quite inconsistent with basic academic freedom principles.