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Showing posts with label academic freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academic freedom. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

High court construes tenure contract to constrain faculty salary cuts at Tufts medical school

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TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Florida A&M moves to fire Latina law prof who spoke on public concern; Hispanic law students resist

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You may review and sign on to a letter of the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association opposing Reyes's termination here.   Prof. ...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

ABA adopts academic freedom standard, but 'Crossroads' convo shows, not everybody gets it

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Is the American Bar Association (ABA) "Doing Enough to Promote Viewpoint Diversity?," panelists were asked at the ABA Midyear Meet...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

War protests expose double standards in higher ed

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Ted Eytan CC BY-SA 4.0 I've refrained from commenting on the Israel-Hamas war, specifically and especially on the eruption of conflict,...
Friday, March 24, 2023

In wake of Stanford free speech fiasco, Duncan models civility, and dean surprises with powerful letter

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Abortion rights rally at Stanford Law in 2022. (Suiren2022 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 ) After the brouhaha at Stanford Law School i...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

'Civility' is code for conformity

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court two weeks ago struck down a town policy purporting to require civility in public meetings. The town...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Atlantic's Applebaum adds to reminscences of academic, editorial freedom; mob justice rules now

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In an article in the October Atlantic , Anne Applebaum examined the potentially devastating effect of cancel culture on academic and edito...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

So now you care about academic mobbing

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Angry Mob by Robert Couse-Baker, CC BY 2.0 Princeton politics professor Keith E. Whittington ( on the blog ) has a wisely worded op-ed , o...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Netflix's 'The Chair' satirizes academic politics with troubling truths of contemporary campus culture

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Netflix's The Chair is an enjoyable six-episode sit com on the absurdity of academic politics in American higher education today.  The ...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Legal educators tussle over politics in faculty honors

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For persons interested in the ongoing tumult at the University of Arkansas Little Rock Law School over the renaming of a professorship after...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Law profs fault vague, empty ABA 'diversity' proposal

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Gan Khoon Lay CC BY 3.0 The accreditation of law schools by the American Bar Association would be a joke if it were more funny than costly. ...
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