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We The People

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Academic freedom threatened most by students, faculty: Report - Washington Times

Academic freedom threatened most by students, faculty: Report - Washington Times:

Image result for No Freedom of Assembly"More than a century ago, colleges and universities feared that outside forces such as corporations or state lawmakers would infringe upon academic freedom, but today the threat to free inquiry has shifted to internal campus forces, a report shows.
Politicized student bodies and radicalized faculty have proved more than willing to disregard academic freedom in the name of “academic justice,” as one Harvard student put it. Polls consistently have shown that large pluralities, if not majorities, of students favor restricting speech that is upsetting or offensive."



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