Steven Salaita was offered a position at the University of Illinois. Then, he lost the job. 'I got an email out of the blue informing me that the job offer had been pulled,' he says. OnPointRadio talks academic freedom on college campuses.
from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Given the size of higher education in this country, you might consider that an insignificantly small number.: Or, you might consider it deeply troubling that there’s a need to track such a number in the first place.: I had taken to Twitter and other forms of social media to condemn Israel's 2014 bombardment of the Gaza Strip.“You may be too refined to say it, but I’m not: I wish all the [expletive] West Bank settlers would go missing.
And then the pandemic, of course, shut down all school transportation possibilities. They shut down the schools in general in this region. And so now I'm just writing and doing substitute work as needed as a school bus driver. So that's kind of my life right now.Making the decision to leave [academia] was in a lot of ways heartbreaking. It still is heartbreaking and difficult to me. Just talking about it. I get sad.
"What's much harder to get a handle on even than that is knowing how bad were things 10 years ago, how were things 20 years ago? Certainly the sense of many of us is that the situation is worse now than it was not too long ago. And we may be at a crucial turning point where things could get much worse in the not too distant future.”: “I think there really is a narrowing of the range of ideas and discussions that could go on on college campuses.
"So people react in various ways. And of course, part of what's really disturbing about these kinds of attacks is it's not only about the particular individuals who are threatened with being fired or dragged through lengthy investigations, but it's the much, much larger number of faculty who look at those examples and say, I don't want to be that person. I don't want to have to go through a similar ordeal.
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