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

A jaw-dropper on #conservative political interference in #Texas #HigherEd. From the Chronicle: https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-really-happened-in-texas-a-ms-two-high-profile-controversies-an-investigative-report-explains?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7412679_nl_Academe-Today_date_20230804&cid=at

@academicchatter #tenure #AcademicFreedom #racism #journalism

Texas A&M professor formally censured and placed on administrative leave for criticizing state policy. #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #Texas #1A #Academia https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/?utm_source=articleshare&utm_medium=social

Please consider signing this petition to protest the Swedish 🇸🇪 government's decision to axe funding for #development research, which was taken without any consultation with the academic community and threatens vital research and cooperation on #sustainability & #poverty reduction

#Science #ScienceMastodon #sciencematters #ScienceJournalism #academicchatter #academicfreedom #research #svpol

https://www.change.org/p/continue-funding-vital-development-research-and-education?recruiter=631991381&recruited_by_id=4e866650-a91f-11e6-9c77-87a24832a2e6&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_for_starters_page&utm_medium=twitter

The #Swedish government has suddenly and drastically removed all funding for #internationalDevelopment research. Officially, the government wants to rethink the #aid-budget. Unofficially but publicly, gov't officials have shared and ridiculed research proposals aimed at #gender #discrimination #marginalisation and #whiteness. Please help stop this attack on #Sweden #academicFreedom

https://www.change.org/p/continue-funding-vital-development-research-and-education?source_location=topic_page

#academicChatter #researchfunding #environment #climateChange #PhD #academicmastodon

Now that they have a supermajority, NC Republicans are moving to both eliminate tenure and impose surveillance on all research conducted. #NCpol #AcademicFreedom #AAUP #HigherEd #Democracy
New bill targets tenure, calls for scrutiny of research at UNC System campuses, community colleges | NC Newsline https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/new-bill-targets-tenure-calls-for-scrutiny-of-research-at-unc-system-campuses-community-colleges/

"A distinction must be made between nudity and pornography. There is nothing pornographic or aggressive about the David, he is a young boy, a shepherd, who even according to the Bible did not have ostentatious clothes but wanted to defend his people with what he had."

Museum Head, Florence Mayor Invite Florida School, Fired Principal to Visit City After 'David' Nix

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65087218https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65087218 via BBC
Photo: Ric Ergenbright/Corbis
#Michelangelo #David #Renaissance #Art #Florence #AcademicFreedom

Important essay by Jennifer Ruth on the Stanford Law protests against Kyle Duncan. #AAUP #AcademicFreedom

https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-stanford-law-students-were-right-to-protest

NC State Chapter of the AAUP presents:

Assaults on Academic Freedom, Curriculum, Shared Governance and Us: What Are They Afraid of and What Do We Do about it?
A talk by Charles Toombs
April 21, 2023, 1:00-2:30 PM
Open to all faculty and allies in North Carolina. https://www.ncstateaaup.org/events

#AcademicFreedom #AAUP

@blue_heathen ⬆️

Watch out! Fascist #RonDeSantis ⬇️ gonna ‘take the boots’ 👢 to the woke appellate court judges that believe in #AcademicFreedom !

RT @cprazevedo
Also, if you haven't done it yet, please read, sign, and share this open letter demanding the University of Groningen to reinstate Susanne Täuber. More than 3000 academics have already signed it! #AcademicFreedom https://organizetherug.wordpress.com/7-2/open-letter/

"The move comes a month after school administrators told Joeckel they were investigating a concern raised by a parent that he was 'indoctrinating' his students by incorporating lessons about racial justice into his writing composition course." https://news.yahoo.com/florida-university-fires-professor-racial-112654710.html #CRT #academicfreedom #race

Québec's #Bill32 on « academic freedom » is a catastrophe.

It’s fundamentally unfree.

It removes freedom from faculty to do their academic work & gives powers to government & university administrators to dictate this work.

#AcademicFreedom

https://theconversation.com/what-is-quebecs-bill-32-on-academic-freedom-and-why-does-it-matter-183122

NC State AAUP statement on changes to Policy 300.5.1, “Political Activities of Employees,” in the University of North Carolina code: https://sites.google.com/view/ncstateaaup-org #AAUP #AcademicFreedom

Susanne Täuber, an Associate Professor at the #UniversityofGroningen who won a national prize for her efforts to improve working conditions at university, is being fired for speaking up against intimidation, discrimination and harassment.

#AmINext? #academicfreedom #universityharassment #lifttherug

https://ukrant.nl/protests-against-potential-firing-of-social-safety-expert-susanne-tauber/?lang=en

https://ukrant.nl/susanne-tauber-awarded-for-commitment-to-academic-freedom/?lang=en

RT @ScholarsAtRisk
We thank @uvic for their collaboration in arranging a placement for an at-risk #scholar on their campus! If interested in supporting #academicfreedom, join the network today! http://ow.ly/zS1c50uCxji

If you can understand Dutch, this article is a brilliant read. On #wokeism, #science, #gender, #CancelCulture and #AcademicFreedom.

https://www.groene.nl/artikel/een-spook-zonder-vaste-vorm

#Wetenschap #academischeVrijheid

As fights over academic freedom intensify, here's some urgent, essential reading from Lisa Levenstein and Jennifer Mittelstadt. #AcademicFreedom #AAUP #HigherEd #HigherEducation #activism https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-real-fight-for-academic-freedom.

Dr. Lara Sheehi, Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University’s Columbian College, describes the hateful attacks and bogus charges of antisemitism lobbed against her, by organized pro-Israel groups. Although charges of any discriminatory practices towards students were dismissed following a thorough intra-university review, in an exceptional decision, GWU agreed to undertake an outside investigation.

#academicfreedom #Israel #palestine #herewego

https://arabtalkradioblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/gwu-succumbs-to-hate-groups-pressure/

NEW: The CvB has said they'll follow the advice of the University Council on the AI-driven smart cameras they secretively put up in #LeidenUniversity

The UC deliberates on this on MONDAY 30/1.

There's still time to sign the open letter!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ei3DyOjK1RG5qm37cgGIPJEeLMLmOEp7Cu3Um38LkI0/edit

#UnseeUs #Cameragate #UniversiteitLeiden #Surveillance #AcademicFreedom #AkademieNL

@dutchacademics @academicchatter

Just over a year ago, a spokesperson for #LeidenUniversity said the smart cameras installed secretively during lockdown would ONLY be turned back on 'if students and staff are convinced they are safe'.

Over 300 have now signed a letter of concern addressed to the University Council:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ei3DyOjK1RG5qm37cgGIPJEeLMLmOEp7Cu3Um38LkI0/edit

We are NOT convinced.

We want them to take the cameras DOWN.

#CameraGate #UnseeUs #Surveillance #AcademicFreedom

@academicchatter
@politicalscience
@histodons
@philosophy