Scholars for Academic Justice
March 11th, 2011 | by karen | published in Culture and Activism, Education, Police State
University of Minnesota sociologist Dr. David Pellow on academic freedom. From highly publicized tenure fights like Ward Churchill’s and Norman Finkelstein’s to the federal case of local graduate student/activist Scott DeMuth, currently in jail, we discuss the chilling effect on professors and students since 9/11/01 and why academic freedom is relevant to all of us. [...]