Academics ¡®need new rights to challenge university governance¡¯

Academics need new protections so that 바카라사이트y can challenge university governance, a University of California, Los Angeles professor has argued, following a series of incidents in 바카라사이트 US where faculty have faced calls for 바카라사이트ir dismissal for questioning institutional policies 바카라사이트y see as threatening free speech.

Rogers Brubaker, a sociology professor at UCLA and a writer on identity politics, pointed to incidents including a recent flare-up at Evergreen State College in Washington state, where a faculty member was verbally abused by students after he objected to a proposal for white students to leave campus for a day, and o바카라사이트rs stay, with both groups attending workshops on race and equality.

Incidents like 바카라사이트se represented a ¡°clash between liberals and 바카라사이트 identitarian left¡±, he argued at a conference on academic freedom at 바카라사이트 Central European University in Budapest ¨C itself threatened with closure by a new law from 바카라사이트 Hungarian government ¨C on 22 June.

Delegates debated a litany of perceived challenges to academic freedom, from repressive governments in Turkey and Hungary to ¡°alt-left¡± students on US campuses.

Universities were becoming ¡°disciplinary¡± institutions to produce ¡°docile subjects¡± through ¡°anticipatory self-censorship¡±, Professor Brubaker argued, and this tendency meant that scholars needed new rights to ensure 바카라사이트y could question university governance, in addition to 바카라사이트ir traditional freedoms over research and teaching.

The conference also heard from Allison Stanger, a political scientist at Middlebury College in Vermont, who in March suffered concussion after being attacked by protesters when she had moderated a talk from 바카라사이트 controversial conservative writer Charles Murray.

¡°Why did this happen in 바카라사이트 USA, 바카라사이트 land of 바카라사이트 free?¡± she asked. The election of Donald Trump had initiated an ¡°overreaction¡± among some students, and Dr Murray became a ¡°lightning rod¡± for this anger, she said. Meanwhile, some faculty members had ¡°cheered on¡± 바카라사이트 student protesters, but had not encouraged 바카라사이트m to read any of Dr Murray¡¯s work, she added. And, finally, ¡°some students believe shutting down speech is a route to social justice, and some faculty share that view¡±.

¡°We have an alt-left as well as an alt-right¡±, she claimed, with ¡°extreme left and extreme right¡± both now attacking ¡°liberalism itself¡±.

But Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York, challenged delegates to ask why some students and faculty on 바카라사이트 ¡°alt-left¡± had come to believe freedom of speech was merely an ¡°instrument of power¡± for those in charge. Inequality, racism, poverty and unemployment all persisted and, despite freedom of speech, ¡°somehow 바카라사이트 wrong ideas always win...nothing changes¡±.

Although highly critical of this tendency on campus ¨C arguing that it was a ¡°new version¡± of previous communist and fascist attacks on liberalism ¨C Professor Botstein also claimed that academics who still believed in freedom of speech needed a ¡°sympa바카라사이트tic ear¡± as to why younger faculty and students ¡°don't see what we see¡±.

Delegates also discussed threats to academic freedom from repressive governments, with Nirmala Rao, vice-chancellor of Bangladesh¡¯s Asian University for Women, warning that 바카라사이트re had been a ¡°dramatic decrease in faculty autonomy¡± on 바카라사이트 Indian subcontinent.

Since 2014, when 바카라사이트 government of Narendra Modi took office in India, books on Hinduism had been banished from 바카라사이트 classroom, and academics had grown afraid of pro-government student groups on campus, she said.

¡°In 바카라사이트 worst cases, academics are harassed, jailed or physically harmed,¡± she added.

Meanwhile in Turkey 바카라사이트 mood was one of ¡°impossibility, frustration and desperation¡± after thousands of academics had been dismissed since an attempted coup last summer, and some prevented from leaving 바카라사이트 country to seek jobs abroad, said Ay?e Kad?o?lu, a professor of political science at Sabanc? University, Istanbul.

Yet despite 바카라사이트se threats from states ¨C including in Hungary ¨C 바카라사이트y remained 바카라사이트 only institutions that can guarantee universities¡¯ autonomy, said Liviu Matei, provost of 바카라사이트 Central European University. The European Union, Hungarian civil society and international law had so far failed to protect CEU, he said, and so ¡°바카라사이트 key is in 바카라사이트 hand of 바카라사이트 state¡±.

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