Results for: academic freedom

St. Louis University Disciplines Students Whose 9/11 Memorial With Israeli Flag Triggered Pro-Hamas Crowd
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/10/02/dont-say-israel-s…s-university-students-disciplined-over-911-memorial-n2180063
– memorial display put up by Remizov and Mattina be that both students are members of the conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom … The end result, Remizov and Mattina could receive warnings that will be on their permanent academic records. Really America?…
Chicago Teachers Instructed to Give Illegal Immigrant Students Passing Grades Despite Poor Performance
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/09/20/chicago-teachers…migrant-students-passing-grades-despite-performance-n2179580
– This is a disgrace to education. pic.twitter.com/X3S8TSLwMG— Illinois Freedom Caucus 🇺🇸 (@ILFreedomCaucus) September 20, 2024The … teachers in Chicago are saying that they are being told to give passing grades to illegal immigrant students regardless of their academic…
Indiana’s State Senate Bill 202 Faces Legal Challenge Over 'Intellectual Diversity' in Higher Education
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/08/07/indianas-state-senate…nge-over-intellectual-diversity-in-higher-education-n2177861
– They assert that it will have a chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom." … Through vague language and the threat of harsh sanctions, including termination, the law strips professors of the academic freedom … freedom and freedom of expression.…
WATCH: CNN Obscenely Claims Conservatives Want to 'Teach About Beheadings,' Bible Is 'Pornographic'
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/07/03/watc-cnn-obscene…ant-to-teach-about-beheadings-bible-is-pornographic-n2176346
– We're going to get to the history and everything, and by the way, Thomas Jefferson, he advocated for freedom of religion, actually …  We have academic standards that tell our teachers that you are to talk about the Bible in reference to the Mayflower Compact,…
Politics Over Progress: Roc Nation Criticism Highlights Lessons About Progressives From Our Past
https://redstate.com/lenny_mcallister/2024/06/25/politics-ov…highlights-lessons-about-progressives-from-our-past-n2175918
– – particularly from poor districts – are missing out on learning opportunities and failing to maximize the full scope of their academic … them contradict their tenor for immediate (and even radical) change on other issues by standing in the doorway to block education freedom … predecessors from the 1950s and 1960s, in their unwillingness to step out in boldness as a collective force for good in education freedom…
DePaul Gives Professor the Boot for Assignment on How 'Genocide in Gaza' Affects Health and Biology
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/06/10/depaul-gives-professor…on-how-genocide-in-gaza-affects-health-and-biology-n2175290
– had negatively affected the learning environment by introducing extraneous political material that was outside the scope of the academic … freedom and another example of this administration’s efforts to twist any discussions of Palestine and Palestinian liberation language … They waved Palestinian flags and held signs that read “Academic freedom includes Palestine.”Students delivered a petition to the administrative…
Appeals Court Upholds School That Prohibited Student From Wearing Shirt Saying There are Two Genders
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/06/10/appeals-court-upholds…ent-from-wearing-shirt-saying-there-are-two-genders-n2175288
– The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the group representing the student indicated they intended to continue fighting the policy.The … after his case generated media coverage and protests.His attorneys at the conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom … the demeaned gender identities that it would "poison the educational atmosphere" and so result in declines in those students' academic…
Trump Verdict Decades in the Making
https://redstate.com/jason-belich/2024/05/31/trump-verdict-decades-in-the-making-n2174891
– They infiltrated academic circles, spreading their ideology through universities and intellectual communities. … They wielded the power of academic authority, using grades and professional influence to enforce ideological conformity. … By embracing a determined, process-driven strategy, conservatives can reclaim control and ensure a future where justice and freedom…
America Is a Beacon of Freedom and Innovation Shaping the World
https://redstate.com/politcs/2024/05/27/america-is-a-beacon-of-freedom-and-innovation-shaping-the-world-n2174729
– the heart of these values are the first principles of American constitutionalism: private property, limited government, economic freedom … renowned schools like MIT, the United States Naval Academy, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Carnegie-Mellon University drive academic … These include freedom of speech, religion, property ownership, the right to bear arms, and the right to due process under the law.…
Die, DEI, Die: Even WaPo Is Now Turning Against the Practice
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/05/23/die-dei-die-ho…iversity-equity-and-inclusion-is-dying-a-slow-death-n2174572
– Reshaping universities via such a heavy-handed use of state power could set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom more generally…
What the MSM Would Rather You Not Know About Why the UNC-Chapel Hill 'Peaceful Protesters' Were Arrested
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/05/09/what-the-msm…e-unc-chapel-hill-peaceful-protesters-were-arrested-n2173941
– point of putting everyone in danger.In recent days, members of this group and others have caused damage to Polk Place, broken into academic … Instead, they focused on the "freedom of speech" talking point because apparently putting your fellow students in danger should be…
'They Don't Work': MIT Becomes First Elite University to Kick 'Diversity' Hiring Requirements to the Curb
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/05/06/they-dont-work-m…y-to-kick-diversity-hiring-requirements-to-the-curb-n2173822
– Institute of Technology (MIT) now knows it, too.MIT president Sally Kornbluth, flanked by the provost, chancellor, and all six academic … We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.No … vision and plans for the future in these areas.”Surprisingly, MIT has stuck a fork in the above idiocy— at least officially.Academic Freedom…
The Libertarian Party Just Announced a Surprise Speaker for Its National Convention
https://redstate.com/benkew/2024/05/01/the-libertarian-party…ust-announced-a-surprise-speaker-for-its-convention-n2173615
– thinkers in our Country, and I am honored to join them in Washington, DC, later this month.We must all work together to help advance freedom … There is no greater collection, nor community, of freedom, liberty, and independently-minded people.Despite Trump's presence at the … Their previous nominee, the academic Jo Jorgensen, secured 1.2 percent of the vote during the 2020 presidential election, equivalent…
This Is How You Do It: Cal Poly Rips 'Lawless Behavior' of Protesters, 'Nothing to Do With Free Speech'
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/04/29/this-is-how-you-do-i…havior-of-protesters-nothing-to-do-with-free-speech-n2173469
– Polytechnic University in Humboldt, and on Sunday they issued a hard-hitting statement to the brats who have commandeered two academic … pic.twitter.com/MqkeXfUSb4— ICE must be destroyed 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (@Itmechr3) April 29, 2024The school’s statement starts out with all the usual academic … different approach than the weak-kneed, capitulation we’ve seen from so many schools:This has nothing to do with free speech or freedom…
Princeton Prepares to Join the Pro-Hamas Movement With Another Anti-Israel Encampment
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/04/24/princeton-prepare…ent-with-another-non-organic-anti-israel-encampment-n2173245
– State of Israel’s ongoing military campaign, occupation, and apartheid policies,” and “cultivate affiliations with Palestinian academic … Those duties range from those who take academic and legal risks to those who give speeches outside the encampment. … “Princeton’s repression of student advocacy for Palestinian freedom is part of a pattern across the country aimed at silencing students…
Israeli Professor at Columbia University: 'This Is 1938'
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/04/23/israeli-professor-at-columbia-this-is-1938-n2173192
– This is beyond the bounds of freedom of expression. … The U.S. can do its part by revoking the academic visas of any of these people who are not American citizens and deporting them.…
Bay of Pigs Anniversary: Gov. DeSantis Signs Law to Teach 'Atrocities of Communism' in Elementary Schools
https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2024/04/17/gov-desantis…rocities-of-communism-in-florida-elementary-schools-n2172918
– Beginning in the 2026-27 academic year curriculum developed by the Florida Department of Education and deemed to be age and developmentally … , and conferences in partnership with Florida International University's Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom. …  There is no freedom of speech, no democratic presidential elections since the 1950s, no religious freedom, no economic rights…
Colleges Making Sure Indoctrination of Students Is Complete by Requiring DEI Classes to Graduate
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/04/11/colleges-making-s…ts-is-complete-by-requiring-dei-classes-to-graduate-n2172606
– students to take DEI courses in order to receive a diploma stifles genuine diversity of thought and undermines the principles of academic … freedom.…
Ivy League University Allowing Antisemitic Cartoonist to Teach Fall Course Because of Course It Is
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/03/16/ivy-league-university…oonist-to-teach-fall-course-because-of-course-it-is-n2171483
– incongruent with our efforts to fight hate.”The president affirmed that the university has “a bedrock commitment to open expression and academic … freedom” and that it has “a responsibility to challenge what we find offensive, and to do so acknowledging the right and ability of…
Argentina's Javier Milei Announces Closure of State-Run News Outlet That Operated as 'Propaganda Agency'
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/03/04/argentinas-javier-mile…run-news-agency-that-operated-as-propaganda-agency-n2170923
– the entire Argentine people, as with all state companies, the public assets and the sovereignty of our country.”Martín Becerra, academic … tenure has already been characterized by bold, sweeping reforms intended to shrink the size of the government and allow for more freedom…
Philly AFSCME President Fired for Getting Caught
https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/02/28/philly-afscme-president-fired-for-getting-caught-n2170681
– One doesn’t typically rise to the top of the heap in the union game through academic achievement, sterling character, or commitment …  Hunter Tower is the East Coast Director at the Freedom Foundation. www.FreedomFoundation.com…
Vermont School Suing the State for Banning It Over Transgender Player
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/02/21/vermont-school-suing-the-state-for-banning-it-over-transgender-player-n2170424
–  The lawsuit comes after the school was barred from all athletic and academic competitions for refusing to participate in a basketball … competitions,” their lawsuit, filed by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), reads.The ADF is a Christian legal advocacy group that works … to defend and preserve freedom of speech to expand Christian practices within public schools and in government, outlaw abortion, and…
The Left Raises Alarms Over 'Christian Nationalism' in a Second Trump Administration
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/02/20/the-left-raises-alar…istian-nationalism-in-a-second-trump-administration-n2170393
– He also made the astonishing-to-modern-ears statement that "freedom is defined by God, not man." … While this is a valiant effort by Vought, unless it has the buy-in of Trump and his inner circle, it is academic onanism.…
For Teachers' Unions, Strikes Are the New Normal
https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2024/02/14/for-teachers-unions-strikes-are-the-new-normal-n2170089
– The country remembers all too well what happened during the 2020-2021 academic year: Students in red states, where teachers’ unions … Varner is vice president of communications at the Freedom Foundation. www.FreedomFoundation.com…
OPINION: Which Is the Best Mis/Disinformation Test, True/False or Harmful/Not Harmful?
https://redstate.com/redstate-guest-editorial/2024/01/18/whi…disinformation-test-truefalse-or-harmfulnot-harmful-n2168886
– Fortunately, our Constitution enshrines freedom of speech in the First Amendment; aside from certain very narrow categories of speech … However, fact-checkers are inherently biased with their own funding sources, academic backgrounds, and media relationships.…
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