Privacy and Professionalism II: Academic Freedom

By erik, on April 11th, 2011%

The recent attempts by conservative groups to use open access laws like FOIA to do blanket searches for emails of professors they deem liberal is a bald attempt to intimidate academics, whom many conservatives see as liberal and therefore enemies. This practice came to light most recently after William Cronon brought to light the actions . . . → Read More: Privacy and Professionalism II: Academic Freedom

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Teaching and politics, again

By erik, on October 24th, 2008%

I promised I would give you my take on politics in the classroom, but it looks like I already did, a year ago. I am having students analyze various types of media to see if they can detect bias, and we are talking about academic bias as well. I get the sense that most students . . . → Read More: Teaching and politics, again

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