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Jan 11

@UW

If professors at @UW want to include a land acknowledgment statement on their syllabi, they must parrot the administration’s viewpoint or shut up.

thefire.org/university-of-… #academicfreedom #FreeSpeech @uwcse

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@UW @uwcse Professor Stuart Reges learned this the hard way when a land acknowledgement on his syllabus was censored by administrators because it didn’t match a university-approved statement.

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@UW @uwcse The university's suggests land acknowledgement statements as a best practice.

That the statement could be adapted seemed clear – until a professor wrote one that administrators didn’t like.

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Sep 21, 2021

JUST IN:

2021 College Free Speech Rankings!

How does your school rank?

rankings.thefire.org

@CMCnews

Top 5 Colleges for Free Speech:

1) @CMCnews
2) @UChicago
3) @UofNH
4) @EmoryUniversity
5) @floridastate

@CMCnews

@CMCnews @UChicago @UofNH @EmoryUniversity @floridastate Worst 5 Colleges for Free Speech:

150) @BostonCollege
151) @WakeForest
152) @LSU
153) @MarquetteU
154) @DePauwU

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Aug 31, 2021

NEW REPORT:

“Scholars Under Fire” documents 426 attempts to penalize collegiate scholars for their expression since 2015.

An alarming 74% of the attempts were successful.

Press release:

go.thefire.org/scholars-under…

Database:

thefire.org/research/schol…

We found that these incidents increased significantly in recent years, quadrupling since 2015 and peaking in 2020 at 113 incidents.

This year is on pace to match or exceed 2020’s record.

Other findings:

* Most incidents occur because of speech or expression on social media.

* Campuses where the most targeting incidents occur tend to also have severely restrictive speech codes

* Incidents occur most often in disciplines at the core of liberal arts education.

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Aug 5, 2021

Idaho officials launched a task force to root out liberal "indoctrination" in education. But encountering views you find objectionable isn't a problem in higher ed — it's an indispensable feature.

So far, the task force has come up short in its quest.

go.thefire.org/idahoedfreedom

The task force asked for public comments on indoctrination "to protect our young people." But when reporters sought those comments, the lt. gov.'s office clammed up, claiming a litany of bogus exceptions to public records laws.

FIRE ultimately obtained some of those records.

While a handful of comments cited troubling interactions with students or faculty, the overwhelming majority of the thousands of comments were sharply critical of the task force and its claims of widespread indoctrination.

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Jun 22, 2021

@UofOklahoma

BREAKING:

A recording of an “Anti-Racist Rhetoric & Pedagogies” workshop acquired by FIRE raises alarm bells about the state of free expression and conscience at @UofOklahoma.

go.thefire.org/l/869921/2021-…

@UofOklahoma

@UofOklahoma “I, in this case, usually look for my students who might be, like, entertaining the idea of listening to a problematic argument. Then I say, ‘we don’t have to listen to that.’”

That’s right — even thinking about listening to a disfavored argument is apparently to be discouraged.

One instructor notes that if students use “derogatory remarks, critiques, and hate speech,” as well as “white supremacist ideas or sources,” she will call the student out.

And if it happens again, “report them.”

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Oct 8, 2020

@StJohnsU

“Do the positives outweigh the negatives?”

It's a standard question asked of history students.

But when a @StJohnsU prof. posed it to his students about the “Columbian Exchange,” he was removed from his class, investigated, and found guilty of bias.

thefire.org/teaching-histo…

@StJohnsU

@StJohnsU Three days after this lesson, professor Richard Taylor was removed from teaching.

A month later, he was informed he violated the “University’s Policy against Bias, Discrimination, and Harassment."

He was not told which part of the over 2,300-word policy he allegedly violated.

@StJohnsU

@StJohnsU Taylor was denied access to the evidence used to support the finding that he violated university policy.

“St. John’s might want to ask a history professor about other authority systems that would punish you based on vague wrongdoing with no evidence,” said FIRE's @AdGo.

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