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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results28 Connexions Library3 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 8 Sources Library 1 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryAaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information: Malicious Government Prosecution Geovanis, Chris Article 2013 The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy. Academe's Poisonous Call-Out Culture Walters, Suzanna Danuta Article 2017 I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, ... The Academic Boycott Debate Podur, Justin Article 2006 An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
Academic Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities Pappano, Margaret Aziza Article 2009 While most academics would agree that a university should be a place where critical debate is fostered, what is academic freedom when the freedom to attend classes without being bombed isn't even assu... Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus  Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children. A Different Kind of Safe Space Gup,, Ted Article 2016 Words are dangerous, but not as dangerous as efforts to suppress them, be it by government or dean -- and certainly not as insidious as self-censorship. EducationSources.ca Website 2017 Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp... The End of Academic Freedom in America: the Case of Steven Salaita Proyect, Louis Article 2015 In the years I spent at Columbia University, there was always some professor or another coming under attack from the Israel lobby. But no matter the intensity of the witch-hunt, I was always proud to ... Endarkenment: Postmodernism, Identity Politics, and the Attack on Free Speech Leighton, Ron Article 2017 Many today find the idea of free speech appalling—an awful fact to those who believe in freedom, quaint as it sounds. Left-liberals agitate to prevent disagreeable expression. Their masked street alli... Free Speech and Acceptable Truths: Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech Alumni for Responsible Speech (Ulli Diemer) Article 2008 While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by in... 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone Diemer, Ulli Article 2009 On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on ... Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics Malik, Kenan Article 2015 Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town. If this is feminism... Oliver, Kelly Article 2017 Part of the problem with the response to Tuvel's article is that some seem to feel that they are the only ones who have the legitimate right to talk about certain topics. At best, this is identity pol... The Israel Advocacy Push to 'Reclaim' York University: Putting Current Events in Context Freeman-Maloy, Dan Article 2009 York is a longstanding hub for "Israel advocacy" organizations (as they designate themselves). This reality expresses itself in various ways. At the grassroots level, far-right Zionist organizing has ... NYU: Nerds on Strike!: Against The Current vol. 120 Plumb, Amanda Article 2006 On November 9, 2005, graduate student employees at New York University (NYU) put down their red pens and picked up their picket signs. After a 2004 ruling by a Bush- appointed majority of the National... Oil CEO Wanted University Quake Scientists Dismissed: Dean's E-Mail Elgin,Benjamin Article 2015 The billionaire CEO of Continental Resources told a dean at the University of Oklahoma that he wanted earthquake researchers dismissed. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017: April 1 issue Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critica... A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association Wald, Alan Article 2014 Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia. Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom Vigo, Julian Article 2017 Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing t... Review: Political War Over Palestine: Against The Current vol. 131 Finkel, David Article 2007 It has become impossible to review titles like these, or discuss the issues they raise, without reference to the rise of an exceptionally vicious campaign against critical activist voices and academic... The Salaita Affair: Lessons Heard and Lessons Learned Ramahi, Omar M. Article 2014 Professor Steven Salaita was to begin his new faculty appointment in Fall 2014 as a tenured Associate Professor in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign... Science and liberation: Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business Podur, Justin Article 2014 The conservative movement’s attack on science has several prongs. Where they can attain government office, as in Canada, they use the highly effective tools of funding and de-funding, and regulation a... When Free Speech Becomes Dead Silence - The Israel Lobby And A Cowed Academia Editor Article 2015 The sudden cancellation of an academic conference on Israel, as well as the lack of outcry from 'mainstream' media, demonstrates once again the skewed limits to 'free speech' in 'advanced' Western dem... Why Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission Friedersdorf, Conor Article 2017 Six professors at an elite American college insist that students will suffer "damage" or "injury" if speakers they may disagree with are allowed to speak on campus. Witch Hunt vs. Academic Freedom: Against The Current vol. 116 Massad, Joseph Article 2005 I appear before you today because of a campaign of intimidation to which I have been subjected for over three years. While this campaign was started by certain members of the Columbia faculty, and by ... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesChomsky.info The Noam Chomsky Web site.
NormanFinkelstein.com The website of Professor Norman Finkelstein.
Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada NECEF is an academically oriented volunteer organization whose extensive international network of individuals and NGO's with expertise about and concern for the Arab World includes a Canadian speakers... Sources LibraryExcerpts from secretly recorded meeting between Wilfrid Laurier University grad student and faculty 2017 Lindsay Shepherd, a Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student and teaching assistant, landed in hot water with the university over a video clip, featuring controversial University of Toronto profess... The High Cost of Skepticism What happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry Tavris, Carol 2002 Here’s what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry. Inside Lindsay Shepherd’s heroic, insulting, brave, destructive, possibly naïve fight for free speech Hutchins, Aaron 2017 Outspoken professor stokes free-speech debate at East Coast university 2018 An associate professor at Acadia University is facing a growing backlash over incendiary social media comments, stoking a national debate about free speech on campus amid calls for his ouster from the... Science and its enemies Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices Diemer, Ulli 2016 Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of t... Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes 2009 Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise. Suppressing TVO video, stifling free speech, is making Wilfrid Laurier unsafe Haskell, David Millard 2017 The university is wrong to castigate a grad student and teaching assistant for showing to her students a debate on TVO’s The Agenda that featured controversial professor Jordan Peterson. Thought police strike again as Wilfrid Laurier grad student is chastised for showing Jordan Peterson video Blatchfor, Christie 2017 A Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant has been identified as “transphobic” and sanctioned for last week showing her class an excerpt of a video debate involving the controversial University ... From the Connexions Archives |
