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“#Fresh hope for campus free speech<\/strong>”
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Here\u2019s some fresh hope for free speech on US campuses: Some 200 scholars and professors from across the country last week launched the Academic Freedom Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting back against \u201ccancel culture\u201d efforts to silence faculty targeted by \u201cwoke\u201d outrage.<\/p>\n

Sparked by conversations among faculty at Princeton University about fading support for free expression on American campuses, the alliance aims to help educators \u201cspeak, instruct and publish without fear of sanction, bullying, punishment or persecution.\u201d Membership fees and donations will help cover legal fees for professionals in hot water over free-speech controversies.<\/p>\n

In recent years, universities have been hyperactive in penalizing staff for alleged insensitivity, as administrators strive to app<\/a>ease student outrage, no matter how unjustified and counter to the fundamentals of academic freedom.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the University of Chicago released a statement affirming the centrality of free speech<\/a> in education. Six years later, only 81<\/a> of the 4,000-plus US higher-education institutions have adopted or endorsed it.<\/p>\n

Princeton\u2019s Keith E. Whittington, a leader of the new group, points to two cases last year that show why faculty need protection.<\/p>\n

In one, the University of Southern California put a prof on leave for lecturing about a common phrase in the Chinese language that some students felt sounded too much like the N-word. In another, Auburn University pulled a professor from the classroom for expressing an opinion about police on his personal Twitter<\/a> account. Both academics later apologized \u2014 in effect, for exercising fundamental free-speech rights.<\/p>\n

With members across the political spectrum, the alliance means to \u201cfoster a national conversation about these kinds of issues.\u201d Cross your fingers that this will inspire more faculty to stand by their peers when politically correct mobs of students (and, all too often, faculty) start waving their pitchforks.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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