4 Challenges to Free Speech in Academe

Autor/in	O'Neil, Robert M.
Titel	4 Challenges to Free Speech in Academe
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2007) 10, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Academic Freedom; Racial Segregation; Constitutional Law; Foreign Countries; Governing Boards; Presidents; Deans; Death; Political Attitudes; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Akademische Freiheit; Rassentrennung; Staatsrecht; Ausland; Governing body; Governing bodies; Leitungsgremium; President; Präsident; Dean; Dekan; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Free speech in American higher education was sorely tested by three bizarre events in the waning days of September and another incident in early October. Each one has potentially grave implications for free expression and academic freedom, and thus merits closer scrutiny. The first event was the extension, then withdrawal and eventual reinstatement, of an offer of a deanship at the University of California to an outspoken scholar of constitutional law. The second was the lecture given by an anti-Western head of state, a vehement Holocaust denier, at Columbia University, along with a less than cordial welcome by the university's president. Meanwhile, though barely noted, the University of California's Board of Regents withdrew a speaking invitation to an eminent economist who is better known as a former president of Harvard. Finally, just as the dust was settling, the University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, declined to invite to the campus, as one of a series of Nobel laureates, a celebrated opponent of apartheid in South Africa, but then relented a few days later. The implications of these events for academic freedom is discussed. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10