Lately I have commented and criticized some of SBL’s recent statements and stances so it is only fair that when I agree with a position they have taken I should praise them. Today SBL sent an email regarding a position that was passed by the council in December 2015. (Some […]
Academic Freedom
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I have addressed this subject several times on this blog before. I posted a poll almost two years ago and gave the example of Dean Dad. The recent CHE post by the Provost of Idaho State University regarding the limits of academic freedom and lunch with the CHE reporter for […]
Excellent commentary on the limits of academic freedom. I tend to think of Inigo Montoya when I hear someone invoke “academic freedom.” “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” A snippet: The practice of citing academic freedom to condone a limitless […]
I hope not this. That this comic should come out today just as someone commented on this 3-year old post about tenure and shortly after I posted this about academic freedom is a wonderful coincidence (and not the least bit ironic, Alanis Morissette!).
Jim West has brought to our attention both the reassignment of Gerd Lüdemann and a petition to protest the fact that the German Supreme Court upheld that decision. According to the petition: Gerd Lüdemann, Professor of the History and Literature of Early Christianity in the University of Göttingen, has received […]