Academic Freedom on the Line
Isaac Kamola, John Warner, Brendan Cantwell, Anna Feder, Victor RayThis newsletter examines academic freedom, its role in democratic society, and what is lost when academic institutions face politicized attacks on institutional autonomy and shared governance. Views expressed are those of the authors, and not the AAUP.
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Author MORE THAN WORDS: HOW TO THINK ABOUT WRITING IN THE AGE OF AI, and WHY THEY CAN'T WRITE: KILLING THE FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY AND OTHER NECESSITIES. Regular contributor @insidehighered, @ChiTribBooks.
Professor of Higher Education.
Anna spent almost two decades in higher education running the Bright Lights, a public exhibition program at Emerson College. She is a consultant and just launched a traveling festival of social justice cinema called Resistance of Vision.
Victor Ray is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa and Vice-President of the American Sociological Association. He is the author of On Critical Race Theory: Why it Matters & Why You Should Care.
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