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Disrupting Speech Is Not Respecting Academic Freedom
January 4, 2012 In “Why We Disrupt,” an opinion piece in this morning’s Inside Higher Ed, P. J. Rey, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Maryland, tries to justify the Occupy movement’s disruption of speech by conservatives … Continue reading
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Frontiers of Academic Freedom: Can It Block a Subpoena?
December 21, 2011 Should academic freedom trump a lawfully-issued subpoena? That’s the question in a federal case involving researchers at Boston College. The case involves oral history interviews with persons involved in “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland. Those interviewed were … Continue reading
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Shared Governance: An Aspect of Academic Freedom?
November 18, 2011 UPDATE below. In today’s New York Times, Michael Berube has an interesting, earnest opinion piece on the unfolding mess at Penn State: “At Penn State, a Bitter Reckoning,” it’s titled. Berube appears to feel some compulsion to … Continue reading
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NSSE Symposium: A Question of Academic Freedom?
October 7, 2011 The higher education news media are abuzz today about a controversy involving the cancelling of a symposium on the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The Chronicle of Higher Education piece (gated) is here. The Inside Higher … Continue reading
Controversy About Kindness
September 27, 2011 I rarely think that what happens at Harvard is very telling about higher education; it’s a place too rarefied and too well resourced to tell us much. But the opening of this fall semester has brought a … Continue reading
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