Academic Freedom and Free Speech in American Higher Education Webinar

Webinar talk by Dr. Ellen Schrecker – “Fighting for Academic Freedom: Past, Present, and Future” – on Wednesday, February 7, 7-8:30 p.m.

Link to recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZWzHA_THg

Academic freedom in higher education has become a defining issue in the U.S. today. But this isn’t the first time.  Dr. Schrecker, a renowned scholar of academic freedom and American higher education, will be speaking about the history of academic freedom challenges and the landscape of current struggles over free speech within American universities, and how those institutions can respond.

Prof. Schrecker’s books include The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s; Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America; and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. A retired professor of history at Yeshiva University, she holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has also taught there, at NYU and Princeton. Prof. Schrecker is currently a member of the national AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom.

This event is sponsored by the New Brunswick Faculty Council, Rutgers AAUP-AFT and Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, as well as the Newark and Camden Faculty Councils, Rutgers University Student Association, and the Rutgers AAUP-AFT’s and Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union’s Academic Freedom Committees.

In solidarity,