Academic freedom

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• Sacramento City College goes after student body president on pro-life display

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  LifeNews : "College officials targeted Steve Macias for retaliation after they attempted to censor the speech of an off-campus pro-life group that ASG had already voted to allow to participate in a campus event . . . Respecting people’s First Amendment rights is worthy of praise, not punishment, said ADF Litigation ...
  18 hours ago

• Life’s paradoxes: On watching the fall of the Berlin Wall in Honolulu, November 1989

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy  recalls how, twenty years ago in Honolulu, he called his three-year old to the television to watch the fall of the Berlin Wall with him as a historic event — even while he had to battle as an individual against the most vicious tyranny unleashed against him by the Government of one ...
  2 days ago

• Case Against Historian Elicits Public Outcry

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 490
  A criminal case against a historian who researched repressed German settlers in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia is now being transferred to the investigative committee of the general prosecutor’s office, according to a statement by authorities. The case against Professor Mikhail Suprun and Police Colonel Aleksandr ...
  3 days ago

• Free speech zones no longer exist at UNT now the whole campus is a free speech zone

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 490
  ‘Zones’ gone, campus opens to free speech By Chris Speight & Josh Pherigo / Senior Staff Writer & Staff Writer - Students may protest, rally or voice their opinions anywhere on campus under UNT’s new free speech policy. After meetings with student organizations, letters from civil rights groups ...
  4 days ago

• Academic Freedom and ED EHRs Down Under: An Update

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 496
  At the post " Academic Freedom Curtailed? " I wrote: The essay on Emergency Department electronic health record (EHR) problems in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) by medical informatics professor Dr. Jon Patrick, Health Information Technologies Research Laboratory (HITRL), University of Sydney, that I ...
  4 days ago

• Student president faces removal after allowing free speech on campus on Consitution Day

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 490
  To see the possible display that was in dispute at below college that the University of CA at Berkely allowed see Genocide Awareness Project hits liberal University of CA at Berkely with disturbing yet powerful images and comments Student President Faces Removal after Allowing Pro-Life Display By Patrick B. ...
  4 days ago

• Capitol Hill Mad Hatters Show Up for More Tea Partying

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Tea Partiers Hit Capitol:They arrived as early as 8:30 a.m., by bus, car and plane — from Bluffton, S.C., Des Moines and Dorris, Calif. — to rally with conservative lawmakers and possibly roam the halls of Congress.“Can you hear us now!” they chanted from the foot of the Capitol, as they awaited the arrival of ...
  4 days ago

• Arizona: Group to appeal district court’s free speech ruling

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  The State Press : "The [Alliance Defense Fund] disagreed with the court’s decision because a college campus is a public forum for students, as the Supreme Court has ruled for many years, Hacker said. We believe that the court needs to address that issue of whether or not these forums are public forums because it has ...
  1 week ago

• Mike Lux on America’s “Historical, Hysterical Conservatives”

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  They have used the same arguments — for tradition and states rights, against “big government socialism” — in every era. In those past eras, history was not on their side. It is not in our time, either.. . .These conservative arguments have always been tinged with more than a little hysteria, just like today. ...
  1 week ago

• More People Flock to Second Day of Colorado Conference to Hear Behe and Berlinski

  
  Evolution News & Views — Authority: 604
  More than a thousand people attended the second day of the Legacy of Darwin ID Conference this weekend in Castle Rock, Colorado. Saturday morning started off with a strong talk by Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe, who synthesized the main points of his books Darwin’s Black Box and The Edge of ...
  1 week ago

• Free Speech Prevails as Stephen Meyer Speaks on Intelligent Design to Huge Crowd at Colorado Conference

  
  Evolution News & Views — Authority: 604
  Castle Rock, Colorado—Despite the first major snowstorm of the season, and unrelenting efforts by malicious Darwinists to prevent people from registering, a huge crowd of around 1,000 people showed up Friday night to hear Dr. Stephen Meyer present the DNA evidence for intelligent design based on his new book ...
  1 week ago

• How To Do Your Job: Stanley Fish, Save The World On Your Own Time

  
  Tenured Radical — Authority: 479
  Save The World On Your Own Time (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Hardcover, $19.95. Stanley Fish is a crank. An erudite crank, an influential crank, but a crank all the same. Which may be why I was inclined to like Save The World On Your Own Time , because although we are a different kind of crank, I ...
  1 week ago

• Academic Freedom

  
  Higher Ed/ — Authority: 124
  I was forwarded a link to University of Chicago President Robert Zimmers address at Columbia University on academic freedom. You can find the text here.Freedom is an interesting idea, and not without its perils. Freedom allows you to try out new ideas. Some new ideas are good, and some not. Natural selection sorts ...
  1 week ago

• Canadian student placed in isolation for whole day for standing for life

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 490
  Related: Student Society at McGill University in Canada cant tolerate pro-life student club message Pro-lifers under attack in our public institutions. Mid Schooler cant wear shirt (see image of shirt), Policeman takes picture of Jesus away and..... Pro-Life Canadian Student Placed in Isolation for Joining ...
  1 week ago

• Academic Freedom

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 412
  The notion most of us have when thinking about the University (read that with a deep and important voice, please) is of a well-architectured limbo-land full of higher thought, in-depth learning, and forward motion steeped nicely in tradition. The University isn’t (or didn’t used to be) as susceptible to the rules ...
  1 week ago

• Audio of Roman Catholic Foundation v. Walsh oral arguments at the Seventh Circuit

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  Academic Freedom File : "On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments in Roman Catholic Foundation, UW-Madison, Inc. et al. v. David G. Walsh, et al., a case involving the viewpoint discriminatory allocation of student activity fees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . . . ADF ...
  1 week ago

• David French: University Bad Faith and the Problem of Mootness

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom , writing at National Review’s Phi Beta Cons blog : "It is becoming increasingly common for universities to defend unconstitutional policies (sometimes for years), make changes at the last possible moment, and then seek dismissal of a case. Just last ...
  1 week ago

• Russian Academic Freedom

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  Word spread this month among the faculty members of St. Petersburg State University: According to a document signed on Oct. 1 , they have to submit their work to administrators for permission before publishing it abroad or presenting it at overseas conferences. The order, which was circulated internally and made its ...
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• Who are the real proponents of hate speech on campus?

  
  Evolution News & Views — Authority: 604
  Supporters of Darwin’s theory continue to distinguish themselves on America’s college campuses—not for their reason and logic, but for their incredible ill manners and an almost pathological inability to engage in civil discussion. Last week, a factually-challenged attack on intelligent design was published in ...
  1 week ago

• Copy of the Sharon Warner vs UNM lawsuit

  
  Dankprofessor's Weblog — Authority: 116
  Click here to view an unedited copy of the Sharon Warner lawsuit against the University of New Mexico.  I provide this to the dankprofessor readership without comment.  All of you know where I stand, it is just more of the same old same old in different garb. Posted in academic freedom, consensual relationships, ...
  1 week ago

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