Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard
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A faculty-led organization devoted to free inquiry, intellectual diversity, and civil discourse at America's oldest university. https://t.co/2Gz5b4YdxW
Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2023
Thank you to everyone who attended our event with @CassSunstein and Randall Kennedy on free speech and academic freedom. You can read more here:
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Join us for our discussion on free speech this afternoon!
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Join us next week for a stimulating conversation. Doors open 3:45pm at HLS. Open to the public.
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Beyond Academic Sectarianism, happening now! Stop by Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall to catch the discussion.
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Join us today! Open to everyone: Beyond Academic Sectarianism: Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 3 - 4:15 p.m.
news.harvard.edu
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We invite you to join us for a discussion this Wednesday in Fong auditorium at 3pm with Steven Teles, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins, on his recent essay “Beyond Academic Sectarianism.”. The event is open to the public!
nationalaffairs.com
The public's impression that American higher education has grown closed minded is undeniably correct. The problem increasingly worries not only conservatives, but also some liberals in the academy....
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RT @thecrimson: FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra said on Monday that she would not sanction faculty members who criticize Harvard’s administration….
thecrimson.com
Harvard FAS Dean Hoekstra Distances Herself from Social Science Dean’s Calls for Faculty Speech Limits | News | The Harvard Crimson
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RT @jflier: My new essay is up @TheAtlantic - An Attack on Free Speech at Harvard.
theatlantic.com
Universities require a culture of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement.
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The CAFH response to Dean Bobo on punishment of faculty speech, now with the fuller list of signatories: .
docs.google.com
The following is a letter from members of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard responding to Dean Bobo’s op-ed calling for punishment of some faculty speech critical of the university. The CAFH...
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RT @hoovlet: "Academic freedom must be subject to only the narrowest of exceptions. Censors always say that the ideas they want to punish a….
thecrimson.com
From the Leadership of CAFH: Don’t Punish Faculty Speech | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
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Many other CAFH members are signing the letter, as well. We'll publish the full list at in a day or two.
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The CAFH leadership has published a response to Dean Bobo's call to punish faculty for some criticisms of Harvard:
thecrimson.com
From the Leadership of CAFH: Don’t Punish Faculty Speech | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
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RT @sapinker: Harvard eliminates requirement for DEI statements in hiring for Faculty of Arts and Sciences (consistent with lobbying by the….
bostonglobe.com
Critics, including liberal academics who have championed diversity, say requiring such statements amounts to extracting loyalty oaths to a particular worldview.
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Harvard just announced a major change to its policy on institutional speech!.
BREAKING: Harvard announced on Tuesday that the University and its leadership will refrain from taking official positions on controversial public policy issues. @HaidarEmma and @cam_kettles report.
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4) Faculty respondents thought the three greatest threats to academic freedom were "pressure from donors"(71%), "self-censorship" (62%), and "intolerance among students" (52%).
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3) "More than 70 percent of respondents said they thought Harvard should adopt a policy of institutional neutrality.".
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2) "A slim majority of respondents, 50.8 percent, said they thought academic freedom was threatened more by the political right, compared to 26.3 percent who said they thought it was more threatened by the left.".
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Interesting results from new @thecrimson survey of Harvard faculty: 1) "57.1 percent majority of respondents said they felt poorly about the state of academic freedom at Harvard." .
thecrimson.com
Harvard FAS Faculty Largely Dismayed by State of Academic Freedom on Campus, Per Survey | News | The Harvard Crimson
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