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?
University of Michigan-Dearborn offers one discussion space for students of color, and another for whites.
"This current incident, and Marshall's response so far, seem disturbingly similar to prevalent behavior in China [during the Cultural Revolution]—spurious accusations against innocent people, which escalated into institutional insanity."
in a class discussion of filler words in conversation (which "neige" apparently is).
Greg Patton was describing the Chinese filler word "nega," which earned him a temporary suspension.
The professor, chair of the Central Michigan University journalism department, was teaching a media law class, and quoted a case that discussed the use of the word "nigger" at public universities.
From Prof. John McWhorter (Columbia) in The Atlantic.
A thought experiment that came to my mind; I'd love to hear what others think about it.
Plus a new draft law review article on the subject, by Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law School), a leading scholar of race and the law, and me.
threatens to kick students out of class for "othering." Fortunately, the university has stepped in and rejected this position.
An excellent piece by Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy, one of the nation's leading scholars of race, law, and society.
In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball reckons with a white supremacist ancestor. Try explaining that to the students.
Plus: Georgia makes it a hate crime to damage police property, SCOTUS denies relief to prisoners, Trump escalates war on Chinese apps, study casts doubt on "diversity training," coronavirus in schools, and more…
This happened at University of Pittsburgh, a public university.
Plus: Tuesday primary results, TikTok may move to London, polls show growing distrust in media, and more...
"Academic staff...are no longer free to make controversial statements to the general public about politically or socially controversial matters," one of them writes.
Both outlawry and cancel culture grow out of the same human impulse toward ostracism, the desire to exclude offenders from “respectable” society.
The student has now sued Fordham
"The idea that wrongheaded, dangerous, heretical, and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous," says Rauch. And yet, it's "the single most successful social principle ever invented."
