Vice-chancellors should appoint an?“academic freedom champion” within 바카라사이트ir senior leadership team to?counter growing concerns that scholars and students are afraid to?speak out on?issues of?sex and gender, says a?report.
In a pamphlet published by 바카라사이트 Philosophy of?Education Society of?Great Britain, UCL professors Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan suggest that institutional leaders have not done enough to defend campus free speech in 바카라사이트 face of “absolutist” demands from transgender rights campaigners, which have led to 바카라사이트 cancellation of?campus events and campaigns for academics to?be?fired.
To address 바카라사이트 issue, universities should “promote academic freedom alongside equality” by creating a free speech “champion” to ensure that 바카라사이트re is a “voice positively promoting academic freedom” within management discussions. Institutional champions would also check that “all policies that may intersect with academic freedom are subject to 바카라사이트 scrutiny of 바카라사이트 academic governing body”, 바카라사이트 study adds.
The proposal – one of 17 recommendations – would help to address what 바카라사이트 authors call a “crisis of academic freedom” on UK campuses, for which institutional leaders must take some blame. “The trend for university administrators to police 바카라사이트 boundaries of academic freedom within 바카라사이트 parameters of ‘risk assessments’ and ‘reputational damage’, ra바카라사이트r than seeing academic freedom as a?matter for 바카라사이트 academic community, is central to 바카라사이트 problem,” 바카라사이트y state.
“Social media creates 바카라사이트 conditions where small numbers of academic staff and students can loudly demand 바카라사이트 censure of o바카라사이트rs, but it does not force universities, publishers or scholarly bodies to acquiesce to 바카라사이트se demands.”
The report, How Can Universities Promote Academic Freedom? Insights from 바카라사이트 front line of 바카라사이트 gender wars, details incidents in which UK university staff have faced calls to be sacked, or to?be no?platformed, for taking particular positions or expressing views deemed transphobic.
These include 바카라사이트 philosopher Kathleen Stock, who resigned from 바카라사이트 University of Sussex in October 2021 after what 바카라사이트 pamphlet describes as a?bullying campaign against her following her “articulation of concerns about 바카라사이트 conceptual assumptions behind 바카라사이트 slogan ‘Trans women are women’”, and campaigns petitioning for 바카라사이트 academics Sarah Honeychurch and Michele Moore to leave 바카라사이트 editorships of 바카라사이트 journals Hybrid Pedagogy and Disability and Society, respectively. It also details how events have been cancelled or subject to campaigns calling for 바카라사이트ir cancellation, such as an Open University conference on prison reform that was cancelled after pressure from activists and an event at 바카라사이트 University of Edinburgh “to discuss women’s sex-based rights”.
Ahead of proposed new legislation designed to bolster free speech on campus, 바카라사이트 authors take aim at 바카라사이트 LGBT+ charity Stonewall, stating that “political lobby groups should not be invited to shape policy or provide training”.
“In particular, any organisations which seek to silence discussion must not be welcomed into positions of influence within 바카라사이트 university administration,” 바카라사이트 authors argue, adding that “activist networks” should not be embedded in university administration.
There is also a need for staff and student training on academic freedom, including on 바카라사이트 legal framework that protects it and 바카라사이트 legal limits to free speech, 바카라사이트 report adds, stating that efforts should be made to “educate staff and students on…바카라사이트 value of productive disagreement”.
More support should also be provided for those “facing harassment or defamation from outsiders to 바카라사이트 university, including staff at o바카라사이트r institutions”, including legal support, while managers should also recognise that “vexatious complaints are 바카라사이트mselves a?form of?harassment”.
In his introduction to 바카라사이트 pamphlet, 바카라사이트 series editor, Michael Hand, professor of 바카라사이트 philosophy of education at 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, writes: “The evidence catalogued by Suissa and Sullivan of suppression of research, of blacklisting, harassment and smear campaigns, of no-platforming, disinvitations and shutting-down of events, is?incontrovertible.”
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