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Dear Dr. Paré, Thank you for your message regarding recent developments in federal funding and regulations. We appreciate the concerns you have raised about the potential impacts on research and teaching.  We want to assure you that we fully recognize the importance of engaging with faculty in addressing these developments. As mentioned in our previous communication,… Read more

Dear Provost Jayawardhana and Executive Vice President Laurent Heller: Thank you for responding. We are glad to have the additional information you provided, and in some cases have received updates from our FBAC and JHUC representatives. These updates do not provide tremendously increased detail from the emails we are receiving from Central. The situation since… Read more

January 31, 2025  Dear Provost Jayawardhana and Executive Vice President Laurent Heller:   We write in reply to your January 27 email regarding the Hopkins work groups created to review developments in federal funding and regulations. You indicate that school-wide faculty governance bodies will be apprised and that as you move forward both partnership and input… Read more

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

CHAMPIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION Since 2021, PEN America has documented a concerted legislative assault on the independence and intellectual freedom of American higher education classrooms and institutions. These laws seek to undermine free expression on campus, censor what can be taught and read in classrooms, and silence discussion of core issues related to American history and our… Read more

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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