By STANLEY FISH
The New York Times - December 20, 2010
Last week conservative activist David Horowitz, author of the Academic
Bill of Rights, e-mailed me to report, in sorrow, that Penn State
University had weakened “the only academic freedom provision . . .
worthy of the name.” What the university had done was revise an 1987
statement stipulating that “it is not the function of a faculty member
. . . to indoctrinate his/her students with ready made conclusions on
controversial subjects.” That sentence disappeared, as did a warning
against “introducing into the classroom provocative discussions of
irrelevant subjects not within the field of [the instructor’s] study.”
The National Association of Scholars Web site
declares that academic freedom at Penn Sate is “ruined.” The left had
won again, and the university world remains a bastion of radical
political forces.
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