The best way to promote free speech in US higher ed is not through private anonymous donorships. It’s through robust public funding for fully desegregated, equal-opportunity, merit-based higher education.
The best way to promote free speech in US higher ed is not through private anonymous donorships. It’s through robust public funding for fully desegregated, equal-opportunity, merit-based higher education.
U Chicago: free speech! Me: Great so the university is gonna commit to pro-Palestinian speech? UC: nope Me: um making sure marginalized students have their voices heard? UC: nope Me: fighting book banners and govt censorship? UC: nope Me: what kinds of speech then? UC: you know which ones
The University of Chicago has received a $100M anonymous gift to do “free speech” work. As Kagan said in Janus, the right seeks to “weaponize the First Amendment,” pushing a libertarian version of free speech that helps the wealthy. Why is Chicago keeping the donor secret? 1/2
Gift will build upon the University’s longstanding leadership in free expression while expanding the Chicago Forum’s impactful work
Too tired to write this out again so screenshotting my LinkedIn post. Deeply disappointed in the @chronicle.com#HigherEd#AcademicSky
I couldn’t believe they published this. It’s such a failing.
This episode really brought home how _Coddling of the American Mind_ is largely a blatant rip-off of Chua’s thesis applied to higher ed.
Episode 32: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother For millennia, society has wrestled with the best methods for raising children. Only one woman was brave enough to give the real answer: scream at them until they play the piano.
A memoir about parenting very badly and then getting weirdly defensive when anyone asks you about it.Where to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other po
I'm thrilled that Polarized by Degrees, my new book with @mattgrossmann.bsky.socialwww.cambridge.org/us/universit...
This episode really brought home how _Coddling of the American Mind_ is largely a blatant rip-off of Chua’s thesis applied to higher ed.
Episode 32: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother For millennia, society has wrestled with the best methods for raising children. Only one woman was brave enough to give the real answer: scream at them until they play the piano.
A memoir about parenting very badly and then getting weirdly defensive when anyone asks you about it.Where to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other po
What if professors actually have an ethical, pedagogical, and even legal responsibility to make sure the classroom is an open forum not simply for *their* speech, but for the speech—and educational opportunity—of the most historically and structurally marginalized students?
IMO, making the classroom a hostile environment for student groups historically—and unfairly or illegally—excluded from it is not a component of any professor’s academic freedom.