{"id":552,"date":"2006-05-25T06:35:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T10:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=552"},"modified":"2006-05-25T06:35:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T10:35:54","slug":"banning-travel-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Banning travel to Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\">Inside Higher Ed<\/a> has finally reported on the Florida bill that would <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/05\/25\/florida\">ban travel to countries labeled as supporting terrorism using funds that go through public colleges or universities<\/a>. I&#8217;ve heard conflicting responses from fellow faculty around the state&#151;not about the wisdom of the policy, which most would recognize is an infringement on several areas of research, but about whether the university faculty&#8217;s collective bargaining agreements would protect such activities. Obviously, from the article, the sponsor in the Florida House does not particularly care to hear from academics.  I suspect that if it were insurance companies or utilities, he&#8217;d be far more respectful.<br \/>\nI had been wondering whether such rules would also prohibit bringing one&#8217;s university laptop or equipment to Cuba to conduct research, even if the purchase was not primarily for research in Cuba, and then I realized that laptops might fall into <a href=\"http:\/\/researchadmin.uchicago.edu\/regulations\/fet_addendum_checklist.pdf\">technology export restrictions<\/a> (a long explanation from University of Chicago&#8217;s research office regarding export restrictions that apply to research conducted in Iran, Cuba, etc.). Then that raises another question: if a faculty member goes through the official, rather severe federal filters for bringing a laptop to Cuba or Iran, why would the state not be willing to let the university handle the money?  I guess Rep. Rivera just doesn&#8217;t trust the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed has finally reported on the Florida bill that would ban travel to countries labeled as supporting terrorism using funds that go through public colleges or universities. I&#8217;ve heard conflicting responses from fellow faculty around the state&#151;not about the wisdom of the policy, which most would recognize is an infringement on several areas [&hellip;]<\/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-552","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-8U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}