Inside Boston University—A BU Faculty Member's Efforts to Defend Academic Freedom of Expression

Ray Carney's observations about academic freedom of expression, constraints on course offerings, the censorship of faculty publications, and bureaucratic retaliation against independent-minded faculty members at Boston University. Prof. Carney reflects on the deleterious effect of corporate values in the promotion, pay, and support system, on market pressures on the life of the mind and, above all, on impositions of "pedagogical correctness" in course offerings and student evaluation methods.

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

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A view from the Inside of an American University--Struggling to Defend Academic Freedom

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Ray Carney raycarney1(at)gmaildotcom tenured Prof. (Film and American Studies)
College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States
Prof. Ray Carney has been working to reform Boston University's policies to censor faculty speech, publications, and teaching methods for more than 10 years. In response, he has experienced a variety of retaliatory punishments from BU administrators at all levels, but says he is "fighting the good fight, for the soul of the institution I have given the best (and worst) years of my career to—and for the good of future faculty members and students, who deserve to function in an environment in which a wide range of opinions can be expressed without fear of bureaucratic, financial, and personal retaliation." His faculty web site has been officially censored and banned by the Boston University College of Communication Dean and University Provost; he has been prevented from teaching courses in the film major; and has been punished financially and bureaucratically for expressing views about the function of education that Boston University administrators have disagreed with. Prof. Carney is the author or editor of more than fifteen books and 100 essays translated into more than 10 languages and is a world-renowned speaker on art, culture, and academic freedom of expression.
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