Table of Contents
FIREReaches Virginia Tech Community with Column in ‘The Collegiate Times’
Yesterday on The Torch, Adam wrote convincingly about how Virginia Tech's efforts to impose vague requirements of a commitment to "diversity" on faculty for tenure and promotion is every bit as much a violation of academic freedom and freedom of conscience as requiring a commitment to similarly amorphous ideals, such as "patriotism" or "Christianity."
The Collegiate Times, the student newspaper of Virginia Tech, has published a version of Adam's Torch entry in its , helping ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ's concerns about this invasive and unconstitutional threat to reach the constituency most in need of hearing them: the more than 30,000 students and faculty members of Virginia Tech.
FIRE, along with the and the , has been leading the public awareness effort against these requirements, but also instrumental in the effort has been the Times' editorial staff, which last week wrote an impressive and principled defending the individual rights of Virginia Tech's faculty. FIREthanks The Collegiate Times for inviting our submission, and is reassured to know that the Virginia Tech community has them to look to for guidance on this issue.
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not submit
Podcast
Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in a culture of conformity. She was beaten and mutilated. She was told who she must marry. Eventually, she rebelled. "You don't speak up at first," she told us. "First you leave and you find a place of safety. It's...
FIREstatement on congressional leaders smuggling unconstitutional Antisemitism Awareness Act into a must-pass defense bill
149 days and counting! Will the White House grant a posthumous pardon in the D.M. Bennett Case? — First Amendment News 447
