Are Our Universities Becoming More Open?
…debate, about matters big and small, without fearing official censorship or the prospect of disciplinary action. But UF’s policy revision is also part of a larger trend that we are…
…debate, about matters big and small, without fearing official censorship or the prospect of disciplinary action. But UF’s policy revision is also part of a larger trend that we are…
…from Haverford’s graduation. Greg Lukianoff and Robert Shibley have provided a roundup of these debacles in “A Big Year for Campus Censorship.” I bring them up again only to emphasize…
…chamber. Let’s take a look at a few of the more notable trends. Disinvitation Season The nation took notice of censorship on campus this spring when a number of prominent…
When student activists tried to block some commencement speakers this year, conservatives generally denounced these efforts as censorship. Sure, these protesters were mostly aligned with the campus left, a group…
…said, is a form of censorship that amounts to McCarthyism. Campus liberals are “trying to repress conservative ideas,” particularly in the Ivy League, he said. Shifting from gently reproving to…
…and teaches them “the wisdom of laughing at ourselves, and not taking the self too seriously.” The term “bullying” is increasingly being used as an excuse for censorship of speech…
…those of us battling on the front lines. ________________________________________ Greg Lukianoff is the president of FIRE and the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate….
…while avoiding actual abridgements of speech, a compromise between censorship and laissez-faire. Yet the institutionalization of such warnings clearly promotes the idea that student sensitivities must be coddled and protected–even…
…silenced at Harvard, she can only think of one person, a single conservative octogenarian. Her call for “censorship” of conservative views on campus is at this point almost wholly unnecessary,…
…Censorship I’ve been a First Amendment and academic freedom lawyer since the beginning of a career that started during the heyday of student protests against the Vietnam War (back then…
…is more important than actual study and research, and that censorship will be justified to bat away incorrect intellectual work. Since Korn believes she is living in “a campus environment…
Karen Straughan, a soft-spoken Canadian activist, gave a controversial speech last night at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her topic was, “Are Men Obsolete? Feminism, Free Speech and the Censorship of…
…about the threats IRB’s pose to research that challenges conventional wisdom–that is, IRB’s can provide a mechanism for colleges and universities to exercise editorial control, even censorship, over research whose…
…of either retiring or staying on but not teaching the course. Thanks to the efforts of a coalition of free speech groups, including the National Coalition Against Censorship and the…
…rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship.” The center provides legal advice and…
…instant. HLS Dean Robert Clark at first resisted calls for censorship, but finally caved in, as did all but three faculty members attending the faculty meeting that approved adoption of…
…some greater good or would, alternatively, conjure some explanation of why this particular act of censorship isn’t really a violation of the principle. But what we should expect of college…
…if not most, of Hamilton’s right-of-center students already practice in the classroom a degree of self-censorship that responsible leadership should, at the very least, find disconcerting. One cannot have difficult…
…absolutely no censorship of any person or viewpoint. In fact, the question I asked on one day in 2010 had nothing to do with higher education at all. I merely…
…today’ social sciences and as such is barely noticed. Most censorship is probably self-imposed without public witch burning. Few academics want to be called a racist, homophobic, a sexist, or…
…censorship of “unwelcome” speech, they’re usually demanding censorship of the speech that they find unwelcome. They usually seek to silence their political or ideological opponents, not their friends—all in the…
…of censorial sentences hidden like trace gold amidst tons of ferrite – will effectively establish a culture of censorship and self-censorship on our nation’s campuses, where only officially-approved attitudes will…
…could host sessions focusing on the challenges on campus and how students can fight back against censorship and attempts to clamp down on independent thought. Armed with the tools necessary…
…concerns about censorship and academic freedom, with even the clichéd allusion to Galileo. The statement indirectly characterizes the stepping exercise as “controversial material [that] might unintentionally” offend students, and such…
… *** Commitment to the principles of academic freedom was tested when new forces of politically correct censorship and thought control began to…
…name or would likely recognize the references in The People’s Cube. They’ve been taught that the evils of Communism–the censorship, the show trials, the gulags–were largely part of a “red scare.”…
…Amendment-protected speech do not adequately fix these problems and will not prevent censorship in practice. See Nitzberg v. Parks (1975) and Gentile v. State Bar (1991). Earlier, a school…
…famously labeled the “shadow university”–the university dedicated to censorship and politically correct paternalism–is now at least 25 years old. The public recognized the consequences of the new censorship early on….
…a grossly arrogant and disrespectful act. A university should abhor such “censorship” and “anti-intellectualism,” the professor concluded. Students go there to be challenged, to encounter ideas contrary to “cherished beliefs,”…
…it–or publish their own papers reaching different conclusions. But a university “inquiry” into alleged “misconduct” because a gay-rights activist didn’t like what Regnerus wrote? That’s top-down censorship that sends a…