The Academic Freedom Podcast

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

Sep 28, 2021

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What College Polls Offers Is Unique?

05:13

Is There a Difference Between Death Threats and Harassment?

04:19

I Think It's a Good Point to Make in a Number of Instances

01:49

Introduction

2min

The College Free Speech Rankings, Sean Comey, Welcome to the Academic Freedom Podcast

5min

What Is the Best Way to Measure the Performance of a School?

2min

What College Polls Offers Is Unique?

5min

Tolerance for Controversy Speakers

4min

What Is the Biggest Thing About the Database?

4min

Are We Dealing With the Tipping of the Iceberg?

3min

The Fire News Desk

4min

The African Free and Malign to Like, Why Is This?

3min

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The Ideological Political Component of Scholars

2min

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What Is Suspension?

2min

12.

I Think It's a Good Point to Make in a Number of Instances

2min

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Is There a Difference Between Death Threats and Harassment?

4min

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The AUP's Data

3min

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Is the N Word in the Reading?

2min

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Social Science and Social Media

3min

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Are You Seeing the Most Never-Insons From the Left of the Scholar?

4min

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Is There a Difference Between the Left and the Right?

3min

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The Database of Free Speech and African-Americans

6min

Keith Whittington interviews Sean Stevens and Komi German, research fellows from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Stevens and German were lead researchers and authors of FIRE's new report and database, "Scholars Under Fire," which includes a list of professors who have been targeted for their speech and features data that provide a broader perspective on threats to campus speech. View the database and learn more at thefire.org/research.

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