New Threats to Academic Freedom: Case Study Clemson
Hale Chair in Applied Ethics presents New Threats to Academic Freedom: Case Study Clemson
Speaker: Charlie Kurth (Philosophy, Clemson)
Academic freedom is typically thought of as a protection on research and teaching. It allows faculty to decide what’s of intellectual significance for their scholarship and in their classrooms. Protecting these freedoms is important—incursions are, alas, all too frequent. But drawing on my experiences as a faculty member at Clemson University, I want to shed light on a new set of challenges to less appreciated dimensions of academic freedom, challenges that put pressure on faculty freedoms to criticize their institutions and to voice their views as citizens. From here, I shift to discuss a collection of intertwined political, economic, and social factors that appear to be driving these new challenges. I then conclude by again drawing on my experiences at Clemson to discuss both why we should be concerned about these new threats and what we can do to defend against them.
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