The Chronicle: 12 Organizations Ask U. of Virginia to Safeguard Climate Researcher’s Academic Freedom
April 14, 2011, 2:56 pm
The Union of Concerned Scientists, the American Association of University Professors, and 10 other organizations are urging the University of Virginia to keep academic freedom in mind as it responds to a conservative think tank’s freedom-of-information request for records related to Michael E. Mann, the climate scientist. The think tank, called the American Tradition Institute, filed a request in January seeking many of the same records that Virginia’s attorney general, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, has also demanded from the university. In addition, the think tank has asked to see records of donations that the university says are paying for its legal challenge to Mr. Cuccinelli’s requests. Mr. Mann left the University of Virginia in 2005 to become director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.
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