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Being thankful for the Supreme Court’s protection of free speech
As FIRE‘s William Creeley notes, not only can we be grateful for Supreme Court decisions protecting speech, such as the 64-year-old West Virginia v. Barnett case on the pledge of allegiance, but we also have an interesting retrospective on the case, including the two children (now much older, of course). I need to finish editing […]
Who will defend faculty on a non-ideological basis?
Erin O’Connor has rightly criticized the assignment of an associate provost to watch a class in a blog entry titled How to destroy a teacher. She frames it as “a caricature of how the campus thought police destroy the learning environment for both students and teachers.” In a comment I left on the entry, I […]
Assistant provost, or ad hoc class observer
When I wrote a few weeks ago about the dangers of ad hoc investigations of student complaints, I didn’t know that I would have a specific case from Brandeis to illustrate my concerns. Accordingto the IHE article, an assistant provost is sitting in on Donald Hindley’s political science class (or maybe classes) after students complained […]
A twofer on Delaware student program and social justice, or "Let’s not confuse institutional prerogatives with students’ propensity to make mistakes"
I normally don’t waste bytes just to point to someone else’s blog and say, “What (s)he said!” In this case, though, Timothy Burke’s engagingly garrulous entry on the University of Delaware student orientation controversy serves double-duty to describe the obvious about the University of Delaware program and also help explain my discomfort with official statements by […]
Horowitz at Emory
Inside Higher Ed’s blurb about the heckling at David Horowitz’s Emory University speech has a link to the Emory Wheel article. Thus far, that looks to be the best reporting on the event.