Indiana (2005)
The "Academic Bill of
Rights"—really more a bill of restrictions, is a misleading,
politically motivated attempt to restrict academic freedom and free
speech. David Horowitz and his followers claim that conservative
professors are discriminated against in the hiring process and that
liberal professors use their classrooms to indoctrinate students,
neither of which is true and Horowitz knows it. He is using this claim
to advance a policy, the academic bill of restrictions, which would
force professors to favor academic balance and sensitivity over
rigorous scholarship, thereby undermining academic freedom and free
speech. Back to Archive
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