Just want to re-introduce myself since so many of you have responded to my posting an article about Texas going after #booksellers#bookstores in an effort to #ban#books. I’m here because I want to be on the record against #censorship, for #FirstAmendment#FreePress#FreeSpeech; for #academicfreedom and the rights of #adjuncts. So welcome and I hope you can put up w/occasional attempts at self-promotion. (I write and occasionally publish stuff.) Peace out.
As sad as the removal of this positive #LGBTQ#mural in this #Michigan school will be --- positively, the censors aren't really winning, as this young artist's work is being seen around the world, and inspiring so many. #Censorship#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom
In the time it took a Texas A& M #professor to drive home from a #lecture on the opioid crisis, a #student complaint wound its way through the bureaucracy to threaten her #academicfreedom & #FreeSpeech#FirstAmendment rights, and her career was put on ice. There’s a reason for this speedy dispatch of her freedoms, and so much more to this story. Read it & despair. #highereducation
#HongKong has denied a visa to Rowena He - eminent scholar of #China ’s 1989 #TiananmenSquare crackdown, preventing her from returning to her teaching post in the city & fuelling concerns about #AcademicFreedom in the #Chinese territory.
He, a #Canadian citizen who was #AssociateProfessor in history at #ChineseUniversity of HK told Financial Times she had also been “terminated with immediate effect”, #CUHK citing immigration department’s rejection of her visa renewal.
UK academics, please consider signing this open letter to the UKRI, in response to the Minister's recent attack on free speech and academic freedom in relation to Palestine/Gaza.
UCU has written to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) calling on it to reverse its decision to suspend its advisory board on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within 48 hours.
If it refuses to do so, the union will call on its members to resign from voluntary positions with the funding body.
Over 400 Signatories Express Outrage Over Silencing of Talks on Palestine on Indian Campuses
Among the signatories are sociologists, political scientists, academicians, researchers, and journalists. They strongly condemned the 'appropriation of the Palestinian issue to fuel Islamophobia in India'.
"To point out that right-wing culture warriors conflate academic freedom and free speech is, in a sense, to give them too much credit. In practice they subscribe to ‘free speech’ and ‘academic freedom’ only when, and to whichever ideological ends, it suits them."
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.
instruction in English (no expectation to speak Mandarin)
1-year contract renews indefinitely
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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!
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
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."
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
We filed an Unfair Labor Practice against the UC to vindicate faculty rights to protest, organize, and exercise academic freedom. Come to the #UAW rally at Murphy Hall today, 3pm, to hear us talk about it.