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Newsdesk by FIRE February 17, 2021
This year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is releasing its 10th list of the “worst colleges for free speech.” Since our first list in 2011, more than 70 institutions in 31 states have found themselves named and shamed for actively working to shut down student and faculty speech rights.
Each year, hundreds of students and faculty members come to FIRE for help when their individual rights are threatened. Many of these cases are quietly resolved. Many more are resolved not so quietly. But the cases you’ll read about below are the ones that went kicking and screaming right onto this list.
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COVID on Campus: The Pandemic’s Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights
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I: Introduction ▲
It’s difficult to find any aspect of our lives that has not been impacted by COVID‑19. Travel, holidays, business, entertainment, and much more look completely different today than they did a year ago. As K–12 and college students, faculty, teachers, and administrators know all too well, education has been deeply changed perhaps permanently by travel restrictions, school closures, and the switch to online education.But COVID‑19’s consequences for education have not been limited to location, access, or, in the University of California, Berkeley’s case, temporary bans on outdoor exercise. On campuses across the country, speech and due process rights have been challenged, too, as administrators struggle to respond to the pandemic. At the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), we have been paying careful attention to how these
Two Collin College professors are fighting to keep their jobs after they say the school terminated their contracts for challenging the administration’s.
Collin College s Wiley campus.
The two long-time female professors say they were also dismissed because they re officers of the school s Texas Faculty Association chapter. The college said it respects the instructors privacy and cannot comment on personnel issues.
Two Collin College professors whose contracts are not being renewed say there were ousted by leaders who did not like their views surrounding the system’s COVID-19 policies. The news follows months of concerns from faculty over COVID-19.
The professors say they were fired, even if on paper, they were told their contracts would not be renewed in May. Audra Heaslip, who’s taught humanities at Collin College for more than a decade, was called into a meeting with some administrators.