{"id":301,"date":"2005-04-08T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=301"},"modified":"2005-04-08T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T16:57:57","slug":"venal-and-mortal-sins-in-the-defense-of-academic-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Venal and mortal sins in the defense of academic freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a few days ago that I hadn’t known of any Florida administrator who had openly opposed Baxley’s bill. That’s not correct. Florida’s higher-ed Chancellor Debra Austin has written (though I haven’t heard it reported that she’s spoken publicly), “We do not believe this legislation is necessary since the AAUP professional guidelines for faculty are widely used nationally and protect against these same concerns,” as reported by the USF Oracle<\/a> earlier this week. I wish the opposition were more open, as quiet lobbying may end the life of a particular bill but does nothing to educate the public about higher ed. But I’m glad she’s on the right side of this at all.
\nOn the wrong side is whoever threw a pie at David Horowitz this week<\/a>. That’s simply unethical, illegal, and stupid. You can’t defend academic freedom by interfering with a speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote a few days ago that I hadn’t known of any Florida administrator who had openly opposed Baxley’s bill. That’s not correct. Florida’s higher-ed Chancellor Debra Austin has written (though I haven’t heard it reported that she’s spoken publicly), “We do not believe this legislation is necessary since the AAUP professional guidelines for faculty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-4R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}