Wisconsin Republicans attack free speech and academic freedom using horribly written statute. ...more from Krugman. And Fallows.
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This attack on academic freedom -- an adjunct hired to teach a course was fired by Brooklyn College administration after a state assemblyman sent a letter arguing that the syllabus.
Something that I and other colleagues have noted at institutions similar to my current employer is that there seems to be an omnipresent implied, when not explicit, anti-intellectual current defining.
Like any good traitorous socialist lefty, I am supposed to treat European culture and politics as decidedly superior to the American alternative. And I often do! But on the subject of libel laws, it seems quite clear to me that Americans have a much more...
Thomas Ricks has a bit more on academic freedom at the Army War College. Ricks quotes Mark Perry:It's worse than you think. They have curtailed the curriculum so that their.
Ezra highlights Tom Ricks' post on trouble at the Army War College. The Army War College, like its Navy counterpart, employs primarily civilian academics to produce research and to furnish.
Scott Jaschik has a fascinating and distressing article at Inside Higher Ed about the misdeeds at the College of DuPage, where the board of trustees recently proposed the adoption of policies that essentially mirror David Horowitz's "Academic Bill of Rights." The proposed changes are a...