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A Discussion with the Authors of FIRE‘s ”Scholars Under Fire” Report

The Academic Freedom Podcast

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What Is Suspension?

There are plenty of instances where there was not a petition, but you can just still find public outcry in the sense of op-eds or tweets. And so it would be clear then that what counts as a sanction threat from that perspective is it is sufficient for somebody to call for a sanction. So we think it's sort of the case of Ward Churchill, for example, after 9-11, which he initially gets in hot water for things he said about 9-11. There's lots of calls from be fired as a consequence of that within the university.

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