NEW REPORT - OUT NOW: Legislation censoring higher ed hasn't gone away in 2024 -- in fact, it's more dangerous than ever -- but it's gone into stealth mode, Jeffrey Adam Sachs and I explain in this PEN America report on the 2024 state legislative sessions. pen.org/report/ameri...
America's Censored Classrooms 2024 explores how lawmakers are refining educational censorship through informal intimidation and pressure.
How did state legislatures censor higher education in 2024? Our latest PEN America report offers a comprehensive analysis. It's due out in ONE WEEK. Journalists: want an advance (embargoed) copy? Send me a DM.
I had some 🔥🔥🔥 things to say about New College's destroying the library of its student-run Gender and Diversity Center. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Here's a Ms. Magazine interview with Amy from last week: msmagazine.com/2024/08/16/n...
The cat is out of the bag! I'm delighted to announce that Dr. Amy Reid, former New College faculty senate president, has joined PEN America as our new Senior Manager, Freedom to Learn. We're very lucky to have her. www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Reid, who served as a dissenting voice on the college’s board of trustees amid a Gov. Ron DeSantis makeover, leaves the college after almost 30 years.
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The university is making all of this up. There is no clear guidance for these items one way or another in the law. Great (awful) example of a university over complying with a vague law.
"An ideologically motivated effort to silence viewpoints and remove resources and information on gender on the New College campus." My statement at PEN America on New College literally tossing the library of its student-led gender and diversity center into a dumpster: pen.org/press-releas...
PEN America has condemned New College of Florida’s destruction of a student-run library of books on gender, part of the College’s abrupt closure of the student-led gender and diversity center on Thurs...