UCU for Academic Freedom campaigns for UCU to unequivocally support academic freedom, and all of its members. It is not a formal union organ.
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If you're wondering who to vote for in the current #UCU elections, here's our list of which candidates do, and don't, support #academicfreedom.
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Thanks for compiling this. Hard to believe that in a union for academics, so few leadership candidates support academic freedom. No wonder so many feminists have left. Good luck with your industrial action.
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Depressing to see how few candidates in the UCU elections support academic freedom. Here's a handy guide to those that do. We wish @ucu good luck with its forthcoming industrial action, and hope it finds it way back to supporting women before too much longer.
If you're wondering who to vote for in the current #UCU elections, here's our list of which candidates do, and don't, support #academicfreedom.
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The #UCU Left manifesto for NEC elections makes their hypocrisy on academic freedom clear. Equating supporters of Israel with holocaust-deniers in order to imply that the former should not be allowed to speak on campus is quite something. #Antisemitism uculeft.org/nec-elections-20…
If you're wondering who to vote for in the current #UCU elections, here's our list of which candidates do, and don't, support #academicfreedom.
ucu4af.wixsite.com/website-2…
As in previous UCU elections, we'll be asking all candidates for their view on academic freedom (specifically "HE32"), and publicising their answers on our website next week.
If the cap fits, wear it. "No debate" means no academic freedom. Declaring people "transphobes" and "haters", just because they don't agree with you, is mindless abuse, and harmful to academic freedom.
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The reply deadline has passed, and this is how the current UCU NEC candidates stack up on #academicfreedom.
A disappointing sea of red, but a handful of pro-AF candidates to support.
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Those yet to respond incl. @tresforde @jpsullivan011 @RedSazzler @markabel24 @ArisKatzourakis @deepa_driver @Alison_Plymouth @EurigS @McLesley2 @MarianMayer20 @BeeHughes_ @CecilyBlyther @SamMorecroft. Pls email [email protected] to confirm your position.
We have tonight written to the candidates standing in the latest elections to the UCU NEC, to ask them to confirm their stance on academic freedom. We will record their replies here: ucu4af.wixsite.com/website-2…
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If @UCU defended members whose academic freedom is egregiously and maliciously curtailed, feminist academics like @selina_todd would have no need to seek support from @SpeechUnion
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.@DrJoGrady @UCU is a fanatic. She completely refuses to acknowledge that silencing feminist voices goes against every principle of academic freedom, freedom of speech and fairness. She paints any departure from the most extreme trans/MRA dogma as evil. It's so disappointing
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Jo Grady says that debate is violence. I am tired of this childish hyperbole and mindless authoritarian sloganeering. It is depressing that the leader of an academic union should have such contempt for free speech and #AcademicFreedom @ucu4af @AFAF_freespeech
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Vote Benjamin for Academic Freedom in the UCU NEC elections @ucu4af
AFAF's guide to who to vote for in the UCU NEC elections - @SpeechUnion @CommSenseUK @DontDivideUsNow @instofideas @spikedonline @CieoThinks @Civitas_UK @timeshighered @Counter_Weight_ afaf.org.uk/ucu-elections-20…
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Despite numerous studies reporting the same finding, academic activists continue to engage in science denial about academic freedom, my latest @Quillette quillette.com/2020/09/01/the… @NJ_Timothy @RemiAdekoya1 @HPluckrose @HdxAcademy @Musa_alGharbi @DrLeeJones @ConceptualJames
Another report on academic freedom in Britain finds evidence of a intolerant climate. Academics on both left and right admit they'd discriminate against each other when hiring. Scholars with unconventional views on politics or social issues ostracised. 😓
NEW REPORT: Academic freedom in the UK
Protecting viewpoint diversity
By @RemiAdekoya1, @epkaufm and Tom Simpson
Foreword by @RuthSmeeth
policyexchange.org.uk/public…
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How universities shut out conservative academics, my latest for @unherd
unherd.com/2020/08/how-unive…
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Faculty at elite university thoughtlessly sign letter?
350 sign. Only 17 are willing to elaborate on their beliefs to a reporter or speak publicly!
Several report not agreeing with document they signed.
Princeton Faculty's Anti-Free-Speech Demands. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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They cancelled Adloph Reed.
“God have mercy, Adolph is the greatest democratic theorist of his generation,” said Cornel West. ... If you give up discussion, your movement moves toward narrowness.” @powellnyt on point as usual: nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/ad…
