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Academic boycotts do threaten academic freedom — no matter what the AAUP says. When institutions or faculty organizations tell members not to work with institutions or scholars affiliated with the boycott’s target (usually Israel these days), they limit open inquiry and expression. Academic freedom depends on a “global system of checking, arguing, researching, collaborating, and competing to produce better ideas,” and that preventing this “in the name of opposing that country’s government is incompatible with this open, liberal system” says Greg Lukianoff. Students and faculty still have the right to advocate for boycotts (& FIRE has opposed attempts to punish them for it). That’s just us, defending speech we disagree with 🤷

How academic boycotts threaten academic freedom

How academic boycotts threaten academic freedom

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Chuck Gollnick

Senior Electrical Engineer & New-Product Developer

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An academic or academic institution which limits who it will and will not work with a) is no longer a UNIVERSity, and b) risks falling behind those who do.

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