Academic Freedom

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• The AAUP’s Cary Nelson Goes to War

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 127
  The president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has written a new book, No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom, due to be published in January, 2010 by New York University Press. In it, he argues that academic freedom verges on being a lost cause, shared governance is in ...
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• Christian group wages campus fight

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 535
  "That organization, the non-profit Alliance Defense Fund, is now undertaking a special campaign on a familiar front of the culture wars. Armed with a $9.2 million donation from an anonymous family plus its own matching funds, the group is stepping up efforts to combat what it says is widespread and unconstitutional ...
  1 week ago

• Weekly Parenting News Roundup

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 141
  Cross-posted at Daily Kos . Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers! How are you this morning? I am fried . I managed to fill out and send out approximately 80 holiday cards, buy, wrap and mail out gifts this week. On the flipside, we did not put up lights or a Christmas tree this year as we will be out ...
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• Santorum Compares Lack of Free Speech on Global Warming to Darwin Debate

  
  Evolution News & Views — Authority: 644
  Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has an article well worth reading in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer . Santorum compares the tactics of suppression used in the global warming debate to similar tactics used in the debate over Darwinism: Questioning the scientific consensus in pursuit of the truth is an ...
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• CLS v. Hastings Law: Yet another response to Professor Volokh by David French

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 535
  David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom , writing at National Review’s Phi Beta Cons blog : "[I]snt Title VI aimed squarely at invidious discrimination? By its terms its limited to the identity-based categories of race, color, and national origin. Is it invidious discrimination for expressive ...
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• Jordan Lorence: Elane Photography plans appeal of negative ruling by New Mexico court

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 535
  ADF Attorney Jordan Lorence writing at the Academic Freedom File : "Also, the District Court rejected the religious liberty claims under the federal and state constitutions. Again, the court diminishes the impact of the state’s actions against the photography company, with its statements that Elane Photography is ...
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• How Much Academic Freedom in Middle Schools?

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 141
  I spotted this news story in the Washington Post and thought it would make good fodder for debate here. How much academic freedom is acceptable for a middle school? A Virginia middle school principal recently called off an assignment that asked students to represent the views of the Taliban during a mock United ...
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• Alan Sears: Religious freedom at stake in Supreme Court case

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 535
  "Do constitutional protections of free speech, free assembly and conscientious religious expression still apply in an academic environment increasingly controlled by Leftist philosophy and the legal hyperventilations of political correctness?"
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• Standing Together: Widespread Support for OSU and its Research

  
  Speaking of Research — Authority: 459
  Standing Together: Widespread Support for OSU and its Research
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• Make Of It What You Will...

  
  The Doctor Isn't — Authority: 119
  Perhaps its a generational difference or perhaps its the joy of having tenure. It could even have something to do with where one went to school (it was noted to me that all the faculty in my grad program who went to a particular graduate school shared a certain year-round tendency towards red noses and rosy cheeks). ...
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• Slight fluctuations from 1998’s record heat doesn’t mean warming is done

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 474
  Sometimes you find rational discussion and good information in the newspaper. This story moved on the McClatchy wire last August (I just recently came across it): Drop in world temperatures fuels global warming debate By Robert S. Boyd | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Has Earth’s fever broken? ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is this the core of the *Bhagavad Gita*?

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy thinks the core of the *Bhagavad Gita* is captured in Grigori Perelman’s statement declining the Fields Medal after proving Poincaré’s conjecture: “[The prize] was completely irrelevant for me. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Michael Sfard on the assault on Israeli human rights groups

  
  Jews for Justice for Palestinians — Authority: 139
  December 10, 2009 Michael Sfard This article complements “Anti-Semites”: How human rights activists became public enemies… – posted on this site on 10 December. The Government Monitor Guillotine Last week, a conference was held at the Knesset whose purpose was to evaluate the ...
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• Row over academic’s Channel 4 documentary appearance

  
  Jews for Justice for Palestinians — Authority: 139
  British businessman sends threatening emails to Israeli university lecturer who contributed to programme accused of antisemitism [see earlier postings on this topic: Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby , Dispatches – The Israel Lobby – some reactions , and More on the Dispatches programme] Ned Temko ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gisha factsheet on Palestinians holders of Gaza IDs in the West Bank

  
  Jews for Justice for Palestinians — Authority: 139
  Restrictions and Removal: Israel’s double bind policy for Palestinians holders of Gaza IDs in the West Bank (See also the related posting: Berlanty Azzam Not Allowed to Finish Her BA at Bethlehem University ) Fact Sheet November 2009 Beginning in approximately 2003, [1] Israel began to prohibit ...
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• The Priority Must Be on Learning…

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 127
  Many people, even some faculty and administrators, do not realize that the ability to assign grades to students based on academic performance is the exclusive right of the instructor. Barring any error or bias on the part of the instructor, administrators and supervisors of the instructor may not ethically interfere ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Priority Must Be on Learning…

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 127
  Many people, even some faculty and administrators, do not realize that the ability to assign grades to students based on academic performance is the exclusive right of the instructor. Barring any error or bias on the part of the instructor, administrators and supervisors of the instructor may not ethically interfere ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACLU court order forced school clerk in Florida to hide in closet so she could pray with a fellow co-worker after loosing 2 year old son.

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 443
  Update to post titled: 400 graduating seniors at Pace High School stood up in protest against the ACLU and recited the Lords Prayer during graduation ceremony. . This post is the third most viewed post at Values Voter News. Below is an update in the case that is in the process of being decided. Do see above post with ...
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• Berlanty Azzam Not Allowed to Finish Her BA at Bethlehem University

  
  Jews for Justice for Palestinians — Authority: 139
  For Immediate Release: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Israel’s High Court Decides: Berlanty Azzam Not Allowed to Finish Her BA at Bethlehem University Despite the fact that the State did not produce the requested documents, Israel’s High Court of Justice accepted the State’s refusal to allow Berlanty to ...
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• Joseph Martins: Forcing tolerance–how to skate on thin ice

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 535
  Joseph Martins writes at the Center for Academic Freedom Blog : "As the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, public universities—like all government entities—need to give private organizations a wide berth for the exercise of First Amendment freedoms, rather than looking for ways to encroach as far as the ...
  2 weeks ago

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