- AAUP: ‘Right-wing effort to disempower public higher education’
"In the past few years more than a half-dozen states have passed laws that aim to protect free speech and intellectual diversity on college campuses, but a nationwide faculty advocacy group has come out against those laws and similar efforts pending in other states.
The American Association of University Professors calls the laws “restrictive” and states on its website they are not about protecting the First Amendment but actually “one piece of a much larger well-funded, right-wing effort to disempower public higher education in the United States.”
...During a video meeting the group hosted Friday, two of its members argued the laws are “solutions in search of a problem” and said there is no free speech problem on campuses today.
...The video conference featured Risa Lieberwitz, professor of labor and employment law at Cornell University and AAUP’s general counsel, who also criticized the laws because they threaten sanctions against major disruptions of guest speakers on campus..."
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