Tag Archives: David Horowitz

Saint Louis U block Horowitz’s “Islamo-Fascism Awareness” event

Inside Higher Ed: Saint Louis U. Blocks David Horowitz Event

David Horowitz is getting backing from his usual critics after Saint Louis University sought to change or block (depending on who you are talking to) a planned lecture he was scheduled to give next week on the campus.

The event — “An Evening with David Horowitz: Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights” — was organized by the College Republications and Young America’s Foundation, which say they were banned from hosting Horowitz. The university denies that it banned Horowitz, but acknowledges that it told the students that they should modify the event.

College of DuPage Rescinds ‘Academic Bill of Rights’

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The board of the College of DuPage on Monday night rescinded a version of the “Academic Bill of Rights” — David Horowitz’s statement about faculty responsibilities that is widely derided by faculty groups as a distortion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.

DuPage College adopts Horowitz’s “Academic Bill of Rights”

Inside Higher Ed: David Horowitz Wins a Round

For all the controversy over the “Academic Bill of Rights”, David Horowitz’s statement of his views of academic freedom, the document has been adopted rarely. But on Thursday, the board of the College of DuPage, a community college outside Chicago, adopted as official policy a statement based on the Horowitz document.