More on Hosty v. Carter
There is more on the Seventh Circuit opinion on Hosty v. Carter (about the censorship of a student newspaper at Governors State University) from Greg Lukianoff, John K. Wilson, and the Student Press Law Center (which has a resource page on the case). The primary concerns appear to be that the decision, which nominally was […]
Censoring students? IHE makes mistake
Today, there is a story at Inside Higher Education reporting (or misreporting) the majority opinion in Hosty v. Carter. In the Inside Higher Ed story, Doug Lederman said that the opinion applied to colleges the 1988 Hazelwood decision that allows high school administrators to censor student newspapers: The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
Bits and pieces of academic freedom this week
Three academic-freedom controversies floating in the blogosphere:
- Allegations that Merck threatened academic researchers …
- Human Rights Watch’s report on Egypt’s assault on academic freedom…
- Allegations by intelligent-design proponents that the delay in Bryan Leonard’s “intelligent design” science education dissertation defense at OSU constituted an attack on academic freedom…
Ideally, the interaction between a student and her or his advisor (and committee) should be a dialogue, with the student getting the benefit of expert perspectives in the area the student is working in. But life is not always ideal. …
Klocek defamation suit
Former Depaul University adjunct Thomas Klocek has filed a defamation lawsuit against DePaul. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education‘s David French comments on the lawsuit on FIRE’s blog. As I’ve noted before, the key issue here is not that DePaul fired Klocek without due process (since adjuncts have few procedural rights at universities—whether they should […]
Another professor’s plagiarism response
Mel, of In Favor of Thinking, has feelings very much like mine in response to plagiarism.