Inside Higher Ed: Anti-Israel Prof Loses Post at Bard
Joel Kovel — one of the more outspoken professorial critics of Israel on American college campuses — is out of his job at Bard College. This week Kovel sent a letter to all Bard faculty members denouncing the way he has been treated and charging that his politics cost him the position.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Georgia Southern U. Rescinds Speaking Invitation to William Ayers
Georgia Southern University has rescinded a speaking invitation to William Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who remains controversial for his involvement in the 1960s in the radical group the Weather Underground.
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Globe and Mail: Queen’s silences campus language-police program
Queen’s University has pulled the plug on a controversial program aimed at correcting students who are using language that might be deemed offensive.
The experimental program, which employed six students to step in when they heard undergraduates using racial slurs or making homophobic comments, set off a fierce debate over freedom of expression on campus. News of the language police spread through the school’s extensive alumni network and made national headlines.
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Illinoishomepage.net: Bill Could Boot Ayers From U of I
Bill Could Boot Ayers From U of I
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A controversial U of I professor could be out of a job if one lawmaker has his way. William Ayers was called a radical and a terrorist for bombing government buildings to protest the Vietnam war.
But Senator Larry Bomke from Springfield doesn’t think he should be teaching in Illinois. He wants anyone who’s committed an act of violence against the United States or Illinois to be banned. While Ayers falls on that list, Bomke says he’s not picking on him.
“It’s not specifically for him,” says the Senator. “And it may be that he embellished whether they did or didn’t do these bombings, and if that’s the case than the shoe doesn’t fit. But if the shoe fits, well, then he should be gone. ”
Bomke says he probably wouldn’t have even known that Ayers was working for the U of I had it not been for the presidential election. You may remember, the Republican Party tried to connect President Obama with Ayers after they served on two boards together.
So far this bill has only been introduced to the Senate. It now sits in committee.
Ayers is expected at the U of I Champaign-Urbana Campus in March. He will be living with students in Allen Hall.
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