Proud to be a part of this movement at #UCLA and walk along my colleagues in defense of our students and the broader principles of academic freedom, critical inquiry, and university autonomy.
Broad divestment from sponsors of state violence is—in my view—essential for the mission of an independent university. In today’s context of #Gaza, it’s even more pressing.
New joint statement by members of #UCLA’s history department, compiled from testimony of faculty present at encampment during various periods and in response to last night’s police violence against students. We make 6 explicit calls of the university administration. Read at link below.
The transnational Movement for a Free Academia have recently launched #theGothenburgManifesto to call for an academic system built on an ethics of care, openness, trust and integrity.
Please read and sign the Gothenburg Manifesto at https://freeacademia.org.
Join the Movement for a Free Academia and support our mission by sharing this call. 🌱
you may not agree with Jodi Dean's position. but the attempt to silence here, punish her for speaking about her viewpoints, is beyond the pale. anyone who cares about #FreedomOfSpeech or #AcademicFreedom should sign this petition
Statement by #USCAAUP on the #USC administration's decision to cancel 2024 valedictorian Tabassum's commencement speech:
"By casting aside the achievements and USC’s own recognition of such an acclaimed student, the USC administration does not merely create a chilling effect on the academic freedom of the entire USC community. It actively strangles it."
Never a dull moment: my employer has just canceled the valedictorian's commencement speech, seemingly because they are afraid she will say something about human rights in #Gaza
"a swarm of on- and off-campus groups attacked Tabassum. They targeted her minor, resistance to genocide, as well as her pro-Palestinian views and “likes” expressed through her Instagram account."
I really don’t know because I have not received any further explanation. The rector did offer me a telephone or video chat at which he would further explain his views. I haven’t replied to that. This is a public affair. I think we all need to go on the record. So, it’ll be up to him to clarify that. There’s also a statement on the university’s website now. To me, most of this seems like smokescreen. It is a clear violation of the university’s own stated policy as well as of the very values they invoke with the name Albertus Magnus.
Those values are precisely values of academic freedom, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, and open discussion. Whatever complicated rationalizations are being given as to why this proceeding allegedly doesn’t violate those values ring hollow to me. This also sends a very strong signal to all people in the university and scholars around the world: if you dare, say, express certain views on certain political subjects, you will not be welcome here [in Germany]. It has a chilling effect on people’s freedom of political speech." https://jacobin.com/2024/04/nancy-fraser-germany-palestine-letter
"The last poem read aloud was titled “If I Must Die.” It was written, hauntingly, by a Palestinian poet and academic named Refaat Alareer who was killed weeks earlier by an Israeli airstrike. The poem ends: “If I must die, let it bring hope — let it be a tale.”
Soon after those lines were recited, the university administration shut the reading down"
In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension
"In this first installment of a new series, 'In Defense of Academic Freedom,' we host faculty members who have been suspended or placed on administrative leave for their support of #Palestine during #Israel’s ongoing #GenocideInGaza."
In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension | Part 2
"In this second installment, we host two faculty members who have been suspended/fired for their support of #Palestine during #Israel's ongoing #GenocideInGaza."
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The University of Colorado Denver is hiring two full time instructors to teach at our Beijing campus. I've taugt in this program for 5 years and am on the hiring committee; please reach out if you have questions!
Nitasha Kaul, who heads the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, was invited by the Karnataka government to attend ‘The Constitution and Unity in India’ conference as a delegate. She was denied entry and made to leave India, she says.
The University of Edinburgh's so-called Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression Working Group is finally opening up their membership beyond senior leadership, to accept applications from normal people.
"Education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think. Universities should be expected to provide the conditions within which hard thought, and therefore strong disagreement, independent judgment, and the questioning of stubborn assumptions, can flourish in an environment of the greatest freedom."