"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."
The professor, the 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.
This one focuses on student groups that get funding from public colleges, but it's an unconstitutional viewpoint-based restriction.
"To survive as a ... professor requires constant self-censorship and compromise, especially in the humanities .... Resistance comes at a cost .... [H]er colleague ..., a law professor, was interrogated and suspended from teaching after publishing a series of essays critical of ...."
Former professor John Cochrane: "I spent much of my last few years of teaching afraid that I would say something that could be misunderstood and thus be offensive to someone."
He remains a tenured faculty member.
"We understand that the context in which this phrase was used resulted in a very painful trigger for many of you."
Her crime? Spelling out what the rap group N.W.A. stands for, and quoting one of their lyrics.
