School Administrators Squashing Academic Freedom

For John, BLUF:  This is academic freedom and its errosion in American institutions of higher learning, is to our detriment.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Law Student Complains about a Question; Professor Sentenced to Re-education Camp

From The James G Martin Center for Academic Renewal, by Mr George Leef, JD, 2 March 2022.

Here is the lede plus four:

Law students are adults who have completed an undergraduate degree.  They’re in a professional school to learn the law, procedures, and skills they’ll need in a conflict-ridden, frequently harsh world.  You would expect that they would act accordingly.

Sadly, that’s not always the case. As we’ll see, law students can be petty and vindictive.

And you would also expect that the people who run law schools would act like responsible scholars, defending their faculty members against groundless attacks.

Sadly, that’s not always the case either.  As we’ll see, law school administrators can act like craven cowards, scurrying away from academic principles at the first hint of trouble.

Welcome to the case of Jason Kilborn, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago law school.  He has been on the faculty since 2010, teaching civil procedure, evidence, and other courses.

It isn't just in Law Schools.  There are indicztions that Dr Anthony Fauci was using his power of the purse to stifle researchers who were not following his line during the COVID Pandemic.

Academic Freedom is important, in that challenging old ideas and putting forward new ideas is how scientific progress (and other academic progress) is made.  We should not allow the powerful to stifle thinking.  The other path leads to a new serfdom and ignorant solutions imposed from on high to the detriment of the People.

One wonders if the profliferation of University Administrators is helping along this evil trend.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff