Tag: academic freedom
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Columbia, Trump, and the Peril of Appeasement
On March 13th, the Trump administration sent Columbia University a list of demands it must meet as a precondition for restoring $400 million in…
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Fredonia Cuts Kershnar, Kills Philosophy Program
“The BA Philosophy was approved for discontinuation and the Philosophy minor will be sunset, which will abolish the Philosophy department, and your continuing appointment…
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Bill Introduced in Kansas Legislature Would Effectively End Tenure (updated)
A bill introduced into the Kansas State House of Representatives last week would, if made law, make it impossible for state institutions of higher…
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Trump Halts All Federal Grants (update: OMB Rescinds Order)
“To the extent permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance……
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Scholars Protest Flawed Evaluation of Polish Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Scholars are objecting to a decision by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to let stand what they’re calling a “flawed and…
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Protests & Universities
“A university is special to the extent that it is a place where teaching and learning replace fighting and grandstanding.”
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How Is Your Administration Spying on You?
The administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been secretly video-recording at least one of its professor’s courses.
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Srinivasan on Open Letters, Protests, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom
Amia Srinivasan’s specialty, it seems to me, is making sense of moral ambivalence: detecting, dissecting, and sometimes defending its reasonability, even in the face…
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Should Universities Protect Protest Speech?
“It is important to insist that, contrary to the Chicago Principles, deliberation and protest are fundamental forms of free expression.”
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Administration Sets Police on Peaceful Student Protestors
Milagros Peña, president of Purchase College, State University of New York, authorized campus and local police to forcibly break up what appears to be…
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Dear University President, You Could Run Out the Clock
“It’s been shocking how impoverished, craven, and imprudent the leadership of the Anglophone’s wealthiest and flagship universities have been this past year.”
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Emmanuel College Dissociates from Cofnas (updated)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge University has “cut ties” with Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher on a Leverhulme Trust fellowship there, because of his research on race…
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges Fails Its Faculty and Its Students
Mark D. Gearan, president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has removed political theorist Jodi Dean from her courses because she authored a pro-Palestinian…
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Educational Gag Orders, etc. in the US
What are state legislatures across the United States doing to limit academic freedom and otherwise interfere in education?
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Leverhulme Trust to Investigate One of Its Philosophy Fellows at Cambridge (updated)
The Leverhulme Trust, a philanthropy in London which provides grants and fellowships to scholars across a range of disciplines, has launched an investigation of one…
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Wiley’s APA Session on the Journal of Political Philosophy
“Anything they said about why this happened was at such a general level and in vague formulations, that those in the room didn’t really…
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Solidarity among Philosophers Leads to New Journal: Political Philosophy
Philosophers may be known for disagreeing with each another, but an agreement last year by a thousand of them helped lead to the creation…
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JPP Still Accepting Submissions Despite No Editorial Team
Several months after the entire editorial team departed from the Journal of Political Philosophy owing to the decision of its publisher, Wiley, to fire…