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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Sunday, 14 August 2005 20:25 |
FrontPage: "What follows is a response to the American Philosophical Association's attack on the Academic Bill of Rights. This attack is typical of the entire academic campaign against the Academic Bill of Rights which, as we have pointed out previously, is almost entirely based on misrepresentation of what the bill actually says and a conflation of proposed legislation with the bill itself. Thus it has been claimed (falsely) that the Academic Bill of Rights would impose political criteria on the academic curriculum. In the first place, the Academic Bill of Rights is a proposed university policy. The legislation has been initiated because universities are not interested in holding their faculties to their own academic freedom standards. In the second place, all the legislation proposed is in the form of resolutions and therefore would also not impose any political restrictions on academic behavior. We recently invited two professors -- Russell Jacoby and Kevin Mattson -- to debate these issues in FrontPage magazine. Both professors began by advancing arguments based on the standard misrepresentations of the opposition to the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately just as the discussion moved to real questions, both professors withdrew. " more
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