Tag Archives: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Catawba Valley Community College vs. FIRE, Free Speech and Fairness
A community college was using a vague policy to bully a student who objected to being exploited as part of an unholy alliance between the school and a credit card company. And then FIRE entered the scene… Continue reading
Filed under Education, Finance, The Internet
Unethical Quote of the Week: University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen
University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen ratifies the school’s police chief’s decision to remove two posters from a professor’s office door out of fear of a fictional character in one instance, and fear of the truth in another. Continue reading
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Education, Ethics Quotes, Leadership, Popular Culture, Professions, U.S. Society
The University of Wisconsin’s Lesson: Ignorance + Political Correctness = Repression
As in the disturbing incident at Widener Law School, in which a professor has been persecuted and punished for the imagined sexist and racist implications in his fanciful classroom hypothetical, a theater professor at the University of Wisconsin in Stout, is now being subjected to full-fledged censorship by the university’s administration because of a pop culture reference that it finds “threatening.” Continue reading
