The devil’s in the details
So I’ve looked at the “academic bill of rights” introduced in the Florida legislature, and there’s something very curious about it, as I noted earlier: there’s absolutely nothing in it either about the academic freedom of faculty or about the freedom of the institution from legislative meddling, which does appear in the so-called model language […]
And it just keeps coming
Two news stories reminds us all that the attacks on academic freedom and campus speech can come from anywhere. The sloppily-written so-called Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR) has been introduced in the Florida legislature as House Bill 837—something I need to write about, given my views about faculty needing to advocate for universities. For now, […]