Today, the AAUP released a new statement on Institutional Neutrality which reaffirms that institutional neutrality is neither a necessary condition for academic freedom nor categorically incompatible with it. 🧵 www.aaup.org/report/insti... - ThreadSky

aaup.bsky.social • 16 days ago

Today, the AAUP released a new statement on Institutional Neutrality which reaffirms that institutional neutrality is neither a necessary condition for academic freedom nor categorically incompatible with it.
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https://www.aaup.org/report/institutional-neutrality

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aaup.bsky.social•16 days ago

“Commitment to neutrality is not some magic wand that conjures freedom. Calls for neutrality instead provide an opportunity to consider how various practices of an institution—not only its speech or silence but also its actions & policies—might promote a more robust freedom of teaching & research."

aaup.bsky.social•16 days ago

The statement calls for principles of academic freedom and shared governance to be chief considerations in the issuing of institutional and departmental statements as well as decisions on financial investments and campus protest policies.

aaup.bsky.social•16 days ago

“A university’s decision to speak, or not; to limit its departments from speaking; to divest from investments that conflict w/ its mission; or to limit protest in order to promote other forms of speech are all choices that might either promote or inhibit academic freedom..."

aaup.bsky.social•16 days ago

...and thus must be made with an eye to those practical results, not to some empty conception of neutrality. The defense of academic freedom has never been a neutral act.”

aaup.bsky.social•16 days ago

In the context of the second Trump administration’s numerous assaults on academic freedom in higher education, the AAUP urges universities, whose educational mission is to serve the public good, not to hide behind the pretense of remaining neutral.

bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social•15 days ago

Boards of Regents are really feeling themselves after everyone locked shields to shut down the Palestine protests. But they all have pressure points, names, and addresses.

hoofin.bsky.social•16 days ago

It's a shame, though, that they "remained neutral" during the whole dust-up about student loan cancellations and needed reforms in the last 5 years. Now, 44 million longterm borrowers don't really care if the current Administration messes with their funding.

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