New legal fund protects professors against cancelation threats by their universitieshttps://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/new-legal-fund-protects-professors-against-cancellation-threats-theirProfessors who are threatened for their speech or research may avoid seeking legal help against their universities, fearing the expense or the escalation of tensions.
A civil liberties group aims to overcome those fears with a new legal defense fund that gives faculty a free lawyer at the earliest stages of conflict with administrators — and potentially all the way through trial.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education explained the fund in a webinar Tuesday, encouraging professors to call the project's 24-hour hotline to be quickly paired with "early responders" who are paid for their time.
It's a marked expansion for the group, which previously referred faculty under fire to lawyers who worked pro bono. ...
It's sad that this is necessary. It proves that the "tenure" that was supposed to protect profs from politically driven assaults has become a politicized sham.
