"It includes a thorough critique of censorship by the Trump administration and state governments across the country, explaining why this repression is "the biggest threat to campus free speech and academic freedom since the McCarthy era." The book is correctly critical of administrators and activists who engage in censorship, and offers many good recommendations for colleges to improve their policies and practices."
"I'll address these other issues in upcoming columns, but let me begin with the question of academic freedom and classroom advocacy. Unlike some experts who make the mistake of presenting a false choice between free speech and academic freedom as the guiding principle of a college, Chemerinsky and Gillman recognize that both concepts must apply, and they often overlap in important ways."
Free speech on college campuses faces significant threats from censorship by the Trump administration and state governments, described as the biggest threat since the McCarthy era. Administrators and activists sometimes engage in censorship and must be held accountable. Colleges should adopt stronger policies and practices to defend free expression. Current proposed definitions of academic freedom are too narrow when they limit protection to professors acting only in professional work. Narrow definitions encourage administrators to punish professors for classroom advocacy, to ban collective faculty speech, and to selectively restrict protests using time, place, and manner excuses. Academic freedom encompasses teaching, research, and extramural utterances and should include personal advocacy in appropriate educational contexts.
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