…their midst. (Abrams and I serve together on Harvard Alumni for Free Speech’s advisory board.) Skipping ahead to 2024, intolerant students of the anti-Israel Divestment Coalition at the college shamefully…
…the MIT Free Speech Alliance, said he is disappointed that the DEI essay is still part of graduate students’ application. “What the Sloan inquiry about an applicant’s political views shows…
…that face the nation in coming years. The National Association of Scholars stands in circumspect silence towards this speech. We note that many observers expressed gratitude that Biden’s term in…
…of qualified applicants who do not unequivocally conform to the prescribed approach to social justice. However well-intentioned, the statements function more as what one writer described as “compelled speech” than…
…its regulations from the widely-circulated Code of Federal Regulations to internal Field Office Manuals that the public does not have access to. I discovered this researching hate speech codes in…
Alas, cutting funding for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) and rewarding universities for free speech will prove insufficient to Make Universities Great Again (MUGA)—a key facet of making America great…
…Faculty Guide to AI Pedagogy and a Socratic Experiment] An imagined speech for the day of convergence I struggled with two chatbots, Gemini and ChatGPT, to construct a speech that…
…religion-like faith. Such reforms will require clarifying concepts of “free speech” and academic freedom. Liberal dupes still support radicals’ demands for “free speech” rights to sedition. Reforming concepts of acceptable…
…their teaching, research, academic speeches and other off-campus talks; 27 percent felt unable to speak freely; 40 percent were concerned about reputational damages for being misunderstood; 23 percent worried about…
…has yet to do so. Experts: Comments ‘unprofessional’ but protected speech Several higher education experts said Zhang’s comments are protected speech but appear “unprofessional.” The announcement “appears to be an…
…encourage ideological conformity and promoting legislation to protect free speech on campus—pose an existential challenge to the academic model we have grown accustomed to over recent decades. Charles Darwin taught…
…and unconscious biases. Such laws turn everyday interactions into potential legal minefields. (Universities, as detailed in a recent report by Speech First, not only mandate implicit bias training for incoming…
…the Marketplace of Ideas Promote Campus Free Speech?] Guskiewicz, a respected academic leader and a vocal proponent of SCiLL, established the initiative’s definitive timeline in his March 2023 response to…
…use the freedom of speech rankings of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) in assessing research proposals is novel and, in my opinion, brilliant. Prestigious elite schools like…
…speech rather than addressing the harmful effect of the protest or addressing anti-Semitism. The world is noticing that SLC is no longer the intellectually rigorous and well-respected institution it once…
…of Chicago professor George J. Stigler’s criticism of academic freedom as an unqualified speech right. Image by Chinnapong — Adobe Stock — Asset ID#: 182486361 & Edited by Jared Gould…
…free expression. I publicly urged President Judd to stand for free speech and condemn the intimidation of students afraid to enroll in my classes. She did not respond and remained…
…those who desire a genuine spirit of intellectual debate on college campuses. The hard left stifles genuine debate since it denies the value of the freedom of speech to those…
…of a healthy intellectual environment: protections for free speech, a proper definition—and implementation—of academic freedom, and a universal agreement to honor reasonable rules of conduct for investigating the nature of…
…faculty rights to free speech and due process. In recent years ED has promoted censorship, intimidation, and the crushing of educational initiative. Comprised of myriad programs and offices, each with…
…the message and the mistake signal the rubric of the work as a whole. Don Quijote later echoes this idea in his famous speech to Sancho about liberty in DQ…
…society we now enjoy, but freedom of speech is endangered. “Progressive” academics argue that speech must be controlled for the good of society, since controversies can “harm” sensitive people. We…
…slogans like “Israel is burning people alive.” As Steven McGuire points out in this week’s top article, these protests are less about free speech than using academic spaces to provoke…
…speech should not be tolerated and we call upon all students, faculty, and staff to reflect on their harmful words.” Rather than call for harm, violence, disruptions, or destruction—as is…
…American empire and that it is seeking to repress pro-Palestinian speech. And of course, ultimately, they want the university to abandon its mission and values by taking a political position…
…institution that actively discriminates against them. Colleges have hypocritically applied campus policies, supporting the speech and protest of students who fall in line with leftist orthodoxies while suppressing and censoring…
…faculty and students. Harris is politically more extreme than Joe Biden, supports restrictions on hate speech, has attacked the free-speech rights of conservative non-profits, and wants to restrict speech that…
…SCiLL is explicitly dedicated to promoting civil discourse and free speech and inculcating the responsibilities of informed, engaged citizenship. UNC-Chapel Hill students who do not participate in SCiLL classes nevertheless…
…of Toxic Topics: Abortion Alternative Genders List Antifa Anti-Semitism Black Lives Matter Capital Punishment Common Core State Standards Competition of Biological Males in Sports Against Females Evolution Feminism Free Speech…
…over genuine insight or perspective. In a critique of DEI practices at the Los Angeles Community College District, I (Louis Galarowicz) argued that the DEI rubric compels speech, where applicants…