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Harvey Silverglate

CS.RSS Subscribe to Blog Subscribe to All The latest news from The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education a nonprofit organization whose mission is to oppose censorship and maintain freedom at American colleges and universities, created in 1999 by Harvey and Alan C. Kors {#foreach $T.Years as year} <div class="year"> <div class="year_header"> <span>{$T.year.Year}</span> </div> <div class="year_months"> {#foreach $T.year.Months as month} <div class="month"> <a href="{$T.month.Url}" year="{$T.year.Year}" month="{$T.month.MonthN}">{$T.month.MonthName}</a> </div> {#/for} </div> </div> {#/for} Archive by Years academic freedom Administrative bureaucracy Award Barnette Belfast Project Boston College Boston Globe Boston Phoenix Campus Diversity Censorship Dharun Ravi Due Process FIRE First Amendment Forbes.com Ford Hall Forum Free Speech Freedom of Conscience Freedom of Speech government overreach Harassment Harvard Injustice Department Letter to the Editor Manhattan Institute Minding the Campus Mindingthecampus Muzzle Awards OCR Dear Colleague Letter Rutgers Sensitivity Training sexual harassment Suffolk University Supreme Court Tyler Clementi UMass University of Rhode Island Vagueness Wall Street Journal washington post Wesleyan Widener School of Law Yale	2011 Muzzle Awards: Another year of crushing free spirits at our colleges and universities July 04, 2011 10:26:53 AM by Harvey Silverglate Yes Cancel Every year, around July 4th, Dan Kennedy and I collaborate on the Boston Phoenix’s annual “Muzzle Awards,” recognizing those people and organizations that have done the most in the prior 12 months to further the cause of censorship. Kennedy selects the “winners” of the award out in the world at large, and I focus on academic institutions and people who are responsible for censorship in the world of higher education (notwithstanding, of course, that old quaint notion of “academic freedom”). This year, Wesleyan University and Yale College have each earned a Muzzle (Yale is on the list for the second year in a row), while repression at Widener School of Law has earned the Wilmington, Delaware institution a dubious Double Muzzle. And UMass-Amherst, for proposing a Draconian change to its student code, gets a Muzzle warning. What were the other infractions on student liberty? Find out, here. [End of post] read more → Tags: Boston Phoenix , Freedom of Speech , Harassment , Muzzle Awards , UMass , Wesleyan , Widener School of Law , Yale 2010 Muzzle Awards: Harvard and Yale once again lead the way...for academic censorship June 30, 2010 10:11:09 AM by Harvey Silverglate Yes Cancel As we prepare to celebrate our nation’s independence, the Boston Phoenix spotlights those who have honored our founding freedoms in the breach with the annual Muzzle Awards, the 13^th installment in this award-winning series. My friend and sometimes colleague Dan Kennedy, Northeastern University professor and Media Nation blogger (and tireless soldier in the war for press freedoms as well as quality journalism), serves up his unbecoming accolades to New England power-brokers who, over the past year, have abused their authority in suppressing free speech and personal liberties, including Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, former Newton Mayor David Cohen, and the MBTA, to name a few. Accompanying Kennedy's Muzzle Awards is my collegiate sidebar, a window into repression on, of all places, college and university campuses, where censorship remains (sadly and outrageously) a reality both much practiced but also much denied. This year’s edition focuses, interestingly, on Harvard and Yale Universities, New England Ivy League schools that should know better but that have helped pave the censorial frontiers of the corporatized academy, while employing public-relations armies to perpetuate the aura of the liberal-arts sensibility. [End of post] read more → Tags: Boston Phoenix , Censorship , Harvard , Muzzle Awards , Yale

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