[news] Exposing the Commonplace Cowardice of “Responsible” Professors

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

For two years I have served at the University of Texas at Austin on the faculty committee on “academic freedom and responsibility,” a pairing of concepts that is common in higher education. While there is a fairly broad consensus on what “freedom” means, competing conceptions of “responsibility” lead to two very different ideas about the appropriate role for professors in public life.

  


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