Institutions issue recommendations on when and how departments should make political statements, if at all. This guidance generally urges caution, citing academic freedom risks.
A UC Berkeley workgroup released a draft report detailing its recommendations on how departments should issue and attribute political statements, drawing criticism from the Berkeley Faculty Association as a “chilling of free speech.”
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt urged University of California President Michael Drake in an August 9 letter to condemn UCLA’s Asian