Free Speech – The College Fix

Furman ‘culture of intolerance’ prompts alumni to form free speech group

Therese Joffre - Hope College — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 06:48:44 +0000

‘I believe the culture at Furman is one of intolerance, but to only right-winged views’ A series of cancel culture incidents at Furman University has prompted some alumni to form a free speech group to lobby campus leaders to allow — and protect — intellectual diversity on campus. Jeff Salmon said he was inspired to start the Furman Free Speech Alliance to promote free expression…

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UC board chair stands strong against cancel attempt for supporting Israel

Hudson Crozier - University of North Texas — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:08:56 +0000

Hundreds at UC want him gone for liking pro-Israel posts The chair of the University of California system’s Board of Regents has not backed down as a coalition pressures him to resign over his engagement with pro-Israel social media content. “The moral bankruptcy and bigotry of UC Regents Chair Richard Leib is not welcome in our university community, and we will remain steadfast in our demands…

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UT Dallas removes free speech rock display, raising censorship concerns

Josiah Sullivan - Clemson University — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:00:43 +0000

Spirit rocks removed after students paint ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘USA Stands with Israel’ University of Texas at Dallas leaders’ recent decision to remove popular free speech campus spirit rocks after students painted a series of pro-Palestine and pro-Israel slogans on them has prompted censorship concerns. The three boulders, installed in 2008, were initially designed to tout “event…

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Michigan Tech professor back in class after Young Americans for Freedom rant

Jack Applewhite - University of Georgia — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:04:20 +0000

Professor called YAF group ‘racist’ for fake Berlin Wall A Michigan Technological University professor will return to the classroom this spring despite being reprimanded during the fall semester for comments he made in the classroom about the campus Young Americans for Freedom group. Professor Carl Blair is set to teach several classes in the upcoming spring semester after facing dismissal…

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Australian professor claims ‘unlawful’ firing for criticizing Greta Thunberg

Matthew Giffin - Middle Tennessee State University — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:02:45 +0000

‘When they want you out, they just push you out,’ former professor said An Australian academic says his university unlawfully terminated him for criticizing Gen Z climate activist Greta Thunberg using his personal account on X. Former Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation Andrew Timming was fired from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, days before Christmas for “exercising [his]…

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Some Harvard scholars demand return to academic freedom, free speech on campus

Matthew Xiao - Cornell University — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:00:58 +0000

‘Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998’ As controversy engulfs Harvard University, three of its professors recently censured administrators for promulgating leftist ideology at the expense of academic freedom and called for a return to free speech and open inquiry on campus. Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, psychology Professor Steven Pinker…

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Nobel prize winner canceled by IMF for climate change skepticism

College Fix Staff — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:53:22 +0000

The canceled talk was ‘postponed indefinitely’ The International Monetary Fund has no clear plans to reschedule a talk by a Nobel prize winner and highly accomplished physicist who is skeptical of climate change. WATCH: MORE: Climate realist’s talk canceled IMAGE: The College…

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UMass Boston removes DEI requirements from job listings

MJ Cadman - Franciscan University of Steubenville — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 05:06:41 +0000

‘I think the university realized we were going to do everything we could to secure the First Amendment rights for its faculty’ The University of Massachusetts Boston will no longer require aspiring faculty members to submit “diversity, equity, and inclusion” statements following advocacy from a national free speech group. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression told The College Fix…

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Climate realist’s UN talk ‘postponed indefinitely’ despite past promises

Hudson Crozier - University of North Texas — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:08:04 +0000

‘I suspect that people don’t like being told and or having it said that they have made trillion-dollar errors, which is effectively what I’m saying’ The International Monetary Fund has not followed through on its promise to reschedule an event featuring a physicist critical of its positions on climate change. It appears now the talk is officially “dead” according to the canceled climate change…

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MIT student group continues the fight for free speech in 2024

Anna Lofgren - University of Rhode Island — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 05:02:13 +0000

‘We are proving that the mob is not at all omnipotent,’ group leader said An upstart Massachusetts Institute of Technology group said it plans to continue to fight for free speech and open debate heading into its second semester. While not all students and faculty agree with Students for Open Inquiry’s speakers, “they appreciate the significance of our mission in the grand scheme of restoring…

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