The Academic Freedom Podcast #7 with Hank Reichman

A conversation with a long-time leader of the American Association of University Professors about academic freedom

A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. Subscribe through your favorite platform so you don't miss an episode.

In this episode I talk with Hank Reichman about the state of academic freedom in America today. Reichman is professor emeritus of history at California State University - East Bay. He is also the former chair of American Association of University Professors' Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. His new book, Understanding Academic Freedom, is now available.

Listen to the whole thing here.

Comments

[Gandydancer]

Hard to stomach Reichman's defense of the poor adjunct who didn't get tenure after being caught on video calling for "muscle" to prevent some student from intruding on a blacks-only occupation of the quad. And then there's his defense of Starbucks firing a barrista if her Facebook post causes picketers to show up in contrast to some academic's deserved impunity for for off-campus stupidity because punishing him for it might have an ulterior motive. It's special pleading all the way down, and not convincing at all.