I know I blogged on this yesterday, but I’m still shaking my head about University of California president Richard Atkinson’s effort to gut the university’s code of academic freedom. Atkinson–-the same fellow who’s responsible for the gutting of the SAT-–is now determined to remove the provisions of the University of California’s code of academic freedom that protect students from professors who want to feed them a political line. The shamelessness of this simply takes my breath away. Fortunately, in contrast to the SAT fiasco, this time there is a way that NRO readers can actually help. If you haven’t already done so, read the following account, then consider scrolling down to the bottom and sending messages of protest to the e-mail addresses listed. To my mind, this whole misadventure has been set off by professors stung by the work of NoIndoctrination.org, the website I wrote about in “Students Fight Back.” That website prominently displays the very provisions of the U.C. code that University of California officials want to cut.
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Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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