Inside Higher Ed: College of DuPage Rescinds ‘Academic Bill of Rights’
The board of the College of DuPage on Monday night rescinded a version of the “Academic Bill of Rights” — David Horowitz’s statement about faculty responsibilities that is widely derided by faculty groups as a distortion of academic freedom principles — that the board adopted just last month. Monday’s meeting, however, was with a reconstituted board that followed board elections in which voters turned out key supporters of the measure encouraged by Horowitz. Faculty leaders at DuPage and elsewhere condemned last month’s vote as an attack on academic freedom. In the hours prior to the board’s vote Monday, statements were issued by several groups urging the board to reverse the April decision.
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