Academic-Freedom Debate Prompts Offer to Unite in Fighting Speech Codes

The Chronicle News Blog: Academic-Freedom Debate Prompts Offer to Unite in Fighting Speech Codes

Washington — Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, generally does not see eye-to-eye with critics of college campuses as hotbeds of political correctness and liberal indoctrination. When he debated Peter Wood, executive director of the National Association of Scholars, over the meaning of academic freedom, on Friday at the group’s annual conference, both predictably came out swinging.

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