For years, Dr. Bruce Gilley has been speaking out
against the indoctrination of radical left ideas for years. Thankfully he still has his job but that’s not from a lack of trying for the university he works at in Portland, Oregon. Gilley says that the problem in higher education isn’t the radical programs like critical race theory but instead it’s the professors who put their heads down and just go along with whatever the university tells them.
“They
are the real traitors to academic freedom, free speech and the expectation of the taxpayer that their universities and colleges should be places of open debate and a variety of perspectives. Gilley says.
Eagle River Fire Protection District/Special to the Daily
The fire that ravaged Building G in the Sunridge Apartments in Avon on April 11 has left five units uninhabitable, with several people now displaced. It could be 6 to 12 months before the units are rebuilt.
While the Christie Lodge has provided temporary housing, a more permanent solution will be needed, and Tsu Wolin-Brown with the Salvation Army, along with Bruce Gillie from the Red Cross, have been working to find accommodation for those who have been displaced.
Brown said the Sunridge fire victims comprise the full scale of needs, with some people having insurance, some being able to rely on local family for help, and others stuck with no insurance and no resources.
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The most astounding thing about American higher education isn’t the fact that we have intolerant “progressives” demanding that those who disagree with them be silenced, but that those censorious academics find so many allies among our college leaders. At one institution after another, once the “woke” indicate their displeasure at someone, the administration can’t move fast enough to comply with their demands.
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In today’s Martin Center article, Portland State political science professor Bruce Gilley writes about this disturbing phenomenon.
Gilley focuses mainly on events at his university, where a new report published by the Oregon Association of Scholars shows how serious the censorship problem has become. He writes, “What should concern Americans about New Censorship, the report argues, is its explicit attempt to redistribute basic freedoms of speech and publication on the basis of ‘anti-racist’ credentials. (And it ext
Standing up for academic freedom
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Academic freedom: What is it? What does it protect? And where is the line between free speech and abuse?
These are some of the questions the Portland State Faculty Senate set out to answer in a resolution passed unanimously on March 1.
“Academic freedom is to the university what the freedoms of expression, association, and assembly are to democracy,” the resolution reads. “As with the abuse of democratic rights, carelessness in the exercise of academic freedom can undermine, stifle, and annihilate academic freedom itself.”
“As Faculty, we must be thoughtful in our exercise of academic freedom and guard against its cynical abuse that can take the form of bullying and intimidation,” the resolution continues. “This kind of abuse of academic freedom destroys academic freedom by eroding the trust that makes possible open dialogue, which is a central tenet in university intellectual life as well as in the practice of
PSU isn’t living up to its values
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Portland State prides itself on its values, its mission and its position in the community. These values include “excellence and innovation,” “integrity” and “inclusion and equity.” Recently, President Stephen Percy named three new strategic priorities for the university: “centering the school’s effort to improve racial justice and equity to combat structural racism, focusing on student success to improve retention and graduation rates and engaging with the community to strengthen Portland as a whole.” The next step is to answer the question: is PSU living up to those values?
Let’s look at PSU’s Black Studies department. The administration has been criticized for barely funding the department; Dr. Ethan Johnson, chair of the department, said in an interview it has “some non-tenure track faculty and some adjunct faculty, but I would say we’re not really a department…the university knows that Black students are