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."
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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!
🚨🎓 If you've ever received a grant from #UKRI* - and you're appalled by their total capitulation to govt #silencing - please do sign this open letter before Monday
🚨 FAO UK academics concerned about academic freedom and/or #Palestine:
Tory minister Michelle Donelan is trying to intimidate UKRI into silencing #academics who have expressed legitimate criticism of the genocide in #Gaza. She appears to be succeeding.
If you want UKRI to stand up for us, please sign this open letter.
Hey all,
I'm still in Jerusalem, here to spread one more thing that isn't making much news outside of Israel, and even outside of leftist circles within Israel -
Academia has also been swept up in the suppression of speech against the bombing of Gaza.
It began when several Palestinian students at Haifa University were suspended without a hearing for pro-Hamas posts.
I think there are plausible restrictions on free speech, so I didn't object to that.
However, this soon expanded into the suspension of more students who spoke out against the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.
Now it has expanded further with the dismissal of faculty members - I think so far all adjuncts - who oppose the war.
At this moment, I don't know how you can support, but if you are an advocate of academic freedom we would greatly appreciate you ready to support us. If there are people who are interested, I can ask around about the best way to support those who have lost their positions.
In the meantime I will post some links to relevant organizations and information in my reply to this post.
Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.
A Texas A&M Regent says "McElroy’s hiring would derail the “purpose” outlined for the journalism program: “to get high-quality Aggie journalists with conservative values into the market.”
Tell me again how liberals are controlling university values? /s