How our universities are failing us

A few weeks ago I commented on an email sent out by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Westminster concerning smoking on university grounds. Dennis Hayes, founder of Academics for Academic Freedom, has now written an article on the subject for The Free Society. Dennis writes:

Under New Labour’s political interference [universities] have incorporated the political values of the last twelve years with enthusiasm. Universities now seek to be socially inclusive, green, sustainable, healthy, sober and safe places. To put it another way, universities are more like schools ...

What academics have to learn, if they are not to end up as snitches, is to defend the civil rights of people whether we like what they do or not. It’s hard, but being an academic makes you a special sort of citizen, with a duty to defend academic freedom and free speech and every other freedom you can.

If academics, whose job embodies the freedom of intellectual inquiry, fail in their duty to defend other freedoms, then there is little hope for the rest of society.

Full article HERE.

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