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Academic Freedom Is on the Ropes
The attacks are coming from both the right and the left.
Stephen Voss for The Chronicle The Faculty
This article is adapted from a new Chronicle collection, “Academic Freedom Now: Why Colleges Should Be Worried,” which explores how to navigate these fractious times. The collection is available in the Chronicle Store.
Many scholars and observers of higher education, even those who may agree on little else, agree on this: Academic freedom is on the ropes.
“Academic freedom is in the worst position of my career, and perhaps the worst condition it has been in decades perhaps since the Red Scare,” says Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit committed to the rights of free speech on college campuses.
âAcademic freedomâ is something conservatives generally advocate, in large part because weâre rarely granted it. That was one of the arguments advanced by Peter Wood last week. But the Daily Wireâs Michael Knowles offers a compelling counterpoint:
Finally some good news on campus: Nikole Hannah-Jones has been denied tenure at the University of North Carolina. Although Hannah-Jones, the New York Times fabulist behind the anti-historical 1619 Project, had secured the endorsement of the schoolâs journalism department, the universityâs board of trustees has intervened to deny her permanent employment.
The trustees made the right decision. Hannah-Jones has won impressive accolades, including the MacArthur âGenius Grantâ and a Pulitzer Prize, but she deserves none of them. As academic historians from across the political spectrum noted when the 1619 Project first appeared, Hannah-Jonesâs entire thesis depends upon a lie. âOne of the prima
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