Category: Academic Freedom
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Open letter to President Daniels: Addressing current threats to academic freedom
We write now to affirm our collective responsibility to defend the right to intramural and extramural utterance, including the expression of political disagreements: a right aligned with U.S. First Amendment protections, which are now actively under attack. Targeting members or groups of our community for retribution, criminalization, or deportation based on ideological criteria that equate… Read more
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Letter regarding Security Cameras on the Homewood Campus
The JHU chapter of the AAUP recently sent this letter to JHPD Police Chief and VP of Security Branville Bard. Dear Mr. Bard, I write on behalf of the Johns Hopkins chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We have received questions about the recent installation of mobile security cameras on campus public… Read more
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AAUP Letter on Academic Freedom
May 1, 2024 Dear President Daniels and Trustees of Johns Hopkins University: We write to remind you of Johns Hopkins University’s Statement on Academic Freedom, adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2015, by which our university committed itself to protect the right “to speak and create, to question and dissent, to participate in debate… Read more
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AAUP Special Reports
AAUP Special Reports Read more
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Published Perspectives by our Members
François Furstenberg on The Chronicle of Higher Education https://www.chronicle.com/author/francois-furstenberg Juliana Paré-Blagoev, “Fighting for the Freedom to Learn at New College of Florida”https://www.aaup.org/article/fighting-freedom-learn-new-college-florida Read more