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My latest: Three questions boards should ask themselves and four steps they should take to uphold #AcademicFreedom in AGB's newest issue of Trusteeship (linked in reply).
Toronto waterfront, 8:02am — this far north, sunrise already after 8am! Returning to DC after @HdxAcademy Canada conference. Lively discussions about #AcademicFreedom in a Canadian context.
This Charlottetown Accord button is spot on today… This Albertan is hoping for a decisive “no” on Question 10.
A third of students rule out colleges in certain states (only about a third consider out-of-state colleges at all). Students--and parents--paying out-of-state prices want a certain kind of experience, one that deepens national polarization.
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Very heated mayoral debate in Takoma Park tonight! Refreshing to see sharp disagreement and real choice for voters.
One of the few joys of air travel was, “Gosh, sorry, I’ll miss that call because I’ll be on a flight then…” and enjoying some uninterrupted time for writing or reading… wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/the…
I attended @ScholarsAtRisk's 2025 NYU conference... SAR brings together folks for on-the-front-lines discussions of threats to #AcademicFreedom at home and abroad. Worth checking out in Chicago this year!
Join SAR in Chicago for the US General Assembly, Nov 12–14. Connect with colleagues to share experiences and develop practical strategies to defend #academicfreedom. Hotel block is available through Oct 11, book today before rooms run out!
Register: ow.ly/QmMY50ZR92A
Glad to be at #APSA26 for a roundtable on #AcademicFreedom and what’s next for higher education
Endorse @TomLindsayTX on both points: "None of this means that a university should tell students what political opinions to hold. Quite the opposite—students cannot learn to deliberate intelligently about public questions if they have never encountered the ideas, historical events, and Great Books that shaped those questions in the first place."
In today's @AcademicRenewal article, Thomas K. Lindsay of @TPPF shows how "UT Austin's new core curriculum puts history, literature, civic education, and the enduring questions of liberal education back at the center." jamesgmartin.center/2026/09/…
The buck stops with university trustees to uphold mission, including a principled approach to institutional speech. I outline strategies to do so: agb.org/trusteeship-article/…
“A gap has opened between the impartial, truth-seeking role universities claim for themselves and the policies they pursue,” John Tomasi and Tyler VanderWeele write. wapo.st/4hRMnBA
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My latest: Three questions boards should ask themselves and four steps they should take to uphold #AcademicFreedom in AGB's newest issue of Trusteeship (linked in reply).
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill retweeted
Independent institutions "fly under the radar"—but CIC President Marjorie Hass says that autonomy comes with responsibility: to speak more vocally and act with greater courage on issues like free expression. Great forum with @bryantalexander
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“The Yale study and the Vanderbilt and Washington report should be read in Canada and should inspire investigation of their relevance here. They are detailed, evidence-based and written by scholarly observers. Many or most in our universities may be comfortable in feeling that they are not relevant in Canada, but that comfort should not be shared by the rest of us. The same issues are present here and require the attention not only of our universities, but of governments, businesses, alumni and other supporters,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Peter MacKinnon in the @nationalpost.
Read here⬇️
macdonaldlaurier.ca/canadian…
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CIC’s @JPfefferMerrill outlines three questions boards must ask and four steps to uphold #AcademicFreedom in this issue of Trusteeship from @AGBInsights: agb.org/trusteeship-article/… #highered #higheredleadership