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.”
Learn about the AFA and bring your questions
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.
The University rightly responds: "At the core of this demand is a disconnect between the law and First Amendment freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution, and the desire by many in the campus community to punish those whose comments are hurtful to others."
ISU initially criticized the tweet, but later affirmed the group's free speech rights and declined to punish them.
Kindly Inquisitors author Jonathan Rauch on the never-ending battle to defend free speech
Speech First, a pro-campus-free-speech advocacy group, can go on with its challenge to UT-Austin's speech codes—and the panel strongly suggests those codes (backed by anonymous reporting to the Campus Climate Response Team) are unconstitutional.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on schooling during COVID-19, the future of higher ed, and why her cabinet department probably shouldn't exist at all
Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU, is worried that his former group is embracing identity politics over free speech.
The subject of the new film Mighty Ira explains why social justice warriors are wrong to attack free speech.
Here are some ways to build a campus culture more open to free inquiry and discourse.
Improving diversity is a worthy endeavor. But compelled “diversity statements” are a form of social engineering that, ironically, can be exclusionary.
Most things faculty publish don’t lead to a backlash. But that doesn’t mean that there’s not an academic freedom problem.
These beliefs shouldn’t be considered the only legitimate way to see the world.
The dynamics of the information ecosystem have impacted research and teaching.
Profs. Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor are guest-blogging this week about their new book.
"The university's Office for Equity, Equal Opportunity and Title IX (EEO-TIX) ... concluded that ... Professor Patton's actions did not violate the university's policy."
"Scathing comments" from an anonymous faculty survey (reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education), plus an article in the Atlantic. You can't buy publicity like that, as they say, or faculty morale like that.
The students are at Florida International University, "Miami's first and only public research university."
"David and Andrea Peterson didn't even participate in the rally—they just watched it. The students don't care."
Global reactions, plus a question [UPDATE: which has been answered, see below]. (This post, put up yesterday afternoon, was bumped so people can see the UPDATE.)
David and Andrea Peterson didn't even participate in the rally—they just watched it. The students don't care.
a response to an important and thoughtful argument by Jacob Levy
The framing is now that Prof. Patton's example was unduly "polarizing" -- but does that normally call for a professor to be switched in the middle of the course?
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