Professors warned: Next generation of academics may not be able to fight campus censorship
Micah Fleck - Columbia University •October 7, 2016
Even center-left professors ‘have never been so fearful’
NEW YORK – Tenured faculty need to start speaking out against the growing climate of campus censorship, or the next generation of professors may not have the job security to do so, the author of a new paper told an event Wednesday hosted by the religion and public life journal First Things.
Jay Schalin of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy presented “Academic Freedom in the Age of Political Correctness,” which argues that many in academia take academic freedom for granted even as speech codes and anti-speech identity politics proliferate.
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