Frustration grows over speech resolution limiting what U departments, institutes can say

Frustration grows over speech resolution limiting what U departments, institutes can say

Local and national groups have weighed in on the measure, passed last March by the Board of Regents.

The Faculty Union Seesaw ✦ OnLabor

Independent monitors. Restrictions on protest and dissent. Censorship of curricula. Firings of professors for classroom speech.  Long in the crosshairs of the conservative movement, colleges and universities have been hit by a barrage of Trump Administration-led attacks on academic freedom, shared governance, and the mission of higher education. The assault has at once revealed faculties’ lack of control over university decision-making and spurr…