30 September 2013

Inside Higher Education: Too quick to suspend?

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/25/are-colleges-being-too-quick-suspend-professors

“When a professor is suspended for expressing controversial ideas, it violates the rights of students to hear those ideas, and the rights of everyone on campus who must live in a climate of fear about freedom of expression.”
“A faculty member’s expression does not lose protection, nor is it punishable by a state university, simply because someone might find it offensive (even highly so).”
"Does the faculty member’s exercise of his or her rights violate anyone else’s?"

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