Friday, July 6, 2018

The Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for Academic Freedom

The Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for Academic Freedom
Excerpt: This morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court sent a powerful message to America’s elite private universities: If you’re going to promise academic freedom, you’d better deliver academic freedom. In a stinging 63-page ruling, the court held that Marquette University violated its own faculty handbook when it effectively terminated professor John McAdams for writing a blog post criticizing a graduate student instructor’s attempts to silence debate about gay rights in her ethics class.

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