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The "Academic Bill of Rights" 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.

Report: Education Works Best With Free Exchange of Ideas

The Center and our coalition, Free Exchange on Campus, released a new report called “Campus Voices.” Throughout the spring, our staff has been on the ground speaking with faculty and students in Pennsylvania about the “Academic Bill of Restrictions.” The report finds that students and faculty learn and teach best when they have access to a free exchange of ideas, unencumbered by restrictions. For more information, read the report.

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Guide to Defeating the Academic Bill of Restrictions (ABOR)

Download the ABOR Toolkit for Students

Download the ABOR Toolkit for Faculty

Use the media!

• Ask professors and student leaders to write opinion editorials in the campus paper and the local paper. Click here for a sample opinion editorial.
• Meet with your newspaper's editorial board and ask them to editorialize against ABOR. Click here for talking points and frequently asked questions.
• Flood the paper with letters to the editor from students and faculty. Click here for sample letters to the editor.

Expose the threat – ABOR is a threat to free speech and it should be treated as such.

• At the Center for Campus Free Speech, we’ve come up with a downloadable flyer that you can distribute to students, faculty, and everyone else that’s interested. Click here to download the flyer.

Build a broad coalition.

• People from all across the political spectrum oppose the Academic Bill of Restrictions. Get professors, administrators, student government, and other student groups to sign on to a letter condemning ABOR as threat to academic freedom and free speech. Click here for a sample letter to send to groups.
• Get your campus student government to join the campaign. Click here for a sample student government resolution.

Recent news stories on ABOR

For more advice, call or email Megan Fitzgerald at the Center for Campus Free Speech: 312-291-0396, megan@campusspeech.org.