University faculty unions fail to defend scholars targeted for their speech, survey finds

Faculty Face Widespread Punishment for Speech, Administrators and Unions Stay Silent — Minding The Campus

The ideal of academic freedom has always rested on a simple promise: scholars must be free to pursue truth, wherever it leads. But new data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) show how far higher education has drifted from that ideal. In FIRE’s latest survey, an astonishing 94 percent of faculty reported […] The post Faculty Face Widespread Punishment for Speech, Administrators and Unions Stay Silent appeared first on…

University faculty unions fail to defend scholars targeted for their speech, survey finds

Academics punished for controversial speech in the United States reported little to no public support from their colleagues or faculty unions, a new survey shows, highlighting a climate of fear and silence on college campuses for scholars who draw backlash. #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #FoundationforIndividualRightsandExpression #Survey #LGBT #CollegeCampuses

94% of Sanctioned Scholars Suffered from Free Speech Attacks | Headline USA

(Tate Miller, The Center Square) A Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey shows that 94% of sanctioned university scholars have experienced a negative impact following the attacks on their free speech, with conservative scholars receiving much less public support from their university colleagues or faculty union compared to liberals. Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) research fellow and manager of polling and…