Academic Freedom and Free Speech in American Higher Education

Academic freedom has been an historic and defining issue in American higher education. On February 7, NBFC - along with Rutgers AAUP/AFT, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, the Newark and Camden Faculty Councils, and Rutgers University Student Association - sponsored this webinar with Dr. Ellen Schrecker. 

The recording of the event can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZWzHA_THg

A renowned scholar of academic freedom and American higher education, during the webinar Dr. Schrecker reviewed the history of academic freedom challenges and the landscape of current struggles over free speech within American universities, and how those institutions can respond. Dr. Schrecker is a retired professor of history at Yeshiva University, having also taught at Harvard, NYU, and Princeton. She is currently a member of the national AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom. Her 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.