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NYU Abu Dhabi is supposed to be in observance of the American Association of University Professors standards concerning academic freedom. What does it mean when the rights of the AAUP chapter president, of all people, are infringed in this manner? And what ominous signal does it send to the less-secure faculty members in Abu Dhabi, who already live and work with a significant degree of self-censorship?
In response to a query regarding speech protections at NYU’s Shanghai campus, Sexton declared that he had “no trouble distinguishing between rights of academic freedom and rights of political expression; these are two different things.” But he should be troubled, because the distinction makes no sense from an AAUP perspective. Extramural speech is one of the classes of speech that clearly fall under AAUP protection. Indeed, it is an obligation of the academic profession to share our knowledge and opinions with the general public, outside of the lecture hall and beyond the limited circulation of our academic journals. All professions have an implicit pact with the public (in return for the marketplace monopoly on their services), but academe is the only one that requires a broad umbrella of speech protections to keep up its end of the bargain.
full: http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2015/03/18/professor-non-grata-andrew-ross-on-collusion-and-delusion/
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