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FIRE to Mount Holyoke College: Students, faculty can’t be forced to make land acknowledgements

FIRE

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Free expression entails not just the right to speak, but the right not to speak. Mount Holyoke College is requiring students and faculty to begin all events, on- and off-campus, by reciting certain personal beliefs in the form of a land acknowledgement. That appears to be what’s happening at Mount Holyoke.

Faculty

Faculty College Students Policy

Official calls professors' abortion legislation criticism a 'policy violation'

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Image: In August, an Indiana University official told faculty leaders who defended a colleague and spoke out against a near-total proposed state abortion ban that they had committed a policy violation. Colin Johnson, a tenured associate professor and president-elect of the IU at Bloomington Faculty Council, signed the letter.

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Policy Faculty Organization Department

FIRE to Mount Holyoke College: Students, faculty can’t be forced to make land acknowledgements

Official calls professors' abortion legislation criticism a 'policy violation'

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