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Poor teaching != indoctrination
The response to the AAUP’s statement Freedom in the Classroom (released September 11) has been fascinating, from Peter Wood and Stephen Balch’s tendentious attempt to fisk the report (thereby burying the legitimate criticisms) to Erin O’Connor’s more focused criticism to Stanley Fish‘s column this Sunday, where he takes the statement (rightly) to task for an inane […]
Duct tape and sand
From Stanley Fish’s blog today, disapproval for Lee Bollinger’s comments last week at the Ahmadinejad speech: The obligation of a senior administrator is to conduct himself or herself in such a way as always to bring honor and credit to the institution he or she serves. Just what this general imperative requires will vary with […]
Academic freedom and administrators
Dean Dad has an important dissent from the oft-expressed views that administrators ain’t got no academic freedom, as Stanley Fish might claim. DD points out the legitimate restrictions on what administrators can say:
Icons and beacons
Eric Rauchway has the best short commentary on two recent University of California idiocies: In the Chemerinsky case, UC threatened Chemerinsky’s academic freedom; in the Summers case, UC threatened mine–and that of everyone else who teaches here. Nice bon mot, but I wish Rauchway had explained it more clearly: UCI Chancellor Michael Drake was violating Chemerinsky’s […]
Andrew Meyer, disruptions, and free speech
The news has been flying on the tasering of Andrew Meyer at a University of Florida speech of Senator John Kerry. The best serious commentary is from former Florida Alligator editor Ron Sachs: Stephen Colbert has his own take on events: