Dear colleague,
Please join the New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden Faculty Councils, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, and the Rutgers University Student Association for a webinar talk by Dr. Ellen Schrecker — “Fighting for Academic Freedom: Past, Present, and Future”—on Wednesday, February 7, at 7–8:30 p.m. (Click here to RSVP and receive a link to this event.)
Academic freedom in higher education has become a defining issue in the United States today. But this isn’t the first time. Dr. Schrecker, a renowned scholar of academic freedom and American higher education, will be speaking about the history of academic freedom challenges, the landscape of current struggles over free speech within American universities, and how those institutions can respond.
Prof. Schrecker’s books include The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s; Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America; and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. A retired professor of history at Yeshiva University, she holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught there, as well as at New York and Princeton Universities. Prof. Schrecker is currently a member of the national AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom.
Please save the date for this important talk and discussion about what past fights to protect academic freedom can teach us about our current moment. (Click here to RSVP to this event.)
In solidarity,
Anna Haley, Chair, New Brunswick Faculty Council
Todd Wolfson, President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Bryan Sacks, President, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union
The event is co-sponsored by the Newark and Camden Faculty Councils, Rutgers University Student Association, and the Rutgers AAUP-AFT and Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union Academic Freedom Committees.