More than 60% of targeting attempts resulted in some type of sanction, including investigation, suspension, or termination.
This includes 28 investigations, 18 suspensions, and 14 terminations.
As in previous years, the topic of race was more likely than any other topic to spark a targeting incident.
Almost 70% of the incidents came from individuals and groups to the political left of the scholar, compared to 30% that came from the right of the scholar.
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@UWyonews Some have pointed out that because the language also prohibits the institution from expending funds from any source to “academic programs,” not just gender studies programs, the language could be literally construed to close the institution’s academic programming.
@UWyonews The amendment functions as a curricular ban on gender studies, and would limit academic discussion of gender in any class, whether offered as part of a “gender studies” program or not.
@GWtweets President @PresWrightonGW backs down, writing that he "responded hastily." He says his response and the removal of the posters were "mistakes".
"I support freedom of speech—even when it offends people," he writes.
@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.
@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.
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.
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.