Is academic freedom on the ropes, as a recent essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education proclaims? Is free speech on college campuses at risk?
Or is the concern exaggerated, the product of media desperation, spawned by the absence of President Trump as click bait, and the need to find something else to feed upon?
After all, I’ve yet to see a single tenured faculty member resign from a major university to protest a violation of academic freedom.
Donor or gubernatorial interference? It should concern us, but, of course, it’s been going on for decades.
