New AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts: What It Really Means
Sep 20, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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Episode description
In this episode we discuss academic boycotts and the AAUP's revised policy on boycotts, released this August. We’ll hear more about the statement, how it came about, and where it fits in the current debates about academic freedom in higher education. The guests are Rana Jaleel, an associate professor at the University of California at Davis and chair of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and Risa L. Lieberwitz, a professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the general counsel of the AAUP. She is also a member of Committee A.
Episode links:
- 2024 Statement on Academic Boycotts
- “The AAUP Has Always Defended Academic Freedom. We Still Do,” Rana Jaleel and Todd Wolfson, The Chronicle of HIgher Education, August 21, 2024
- “The AAUP Is Right, Supporting Boycotts is Academic Freedom.” Joan Wallach Scott, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 20, 2024
- “Changing My Mind About Boycotts, Joan W. Scott,” Journal of Academic Freedom, Volume 4, 2013
- 2006 Statement on Academic Boycotts
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