Florida House Bill 999 is a dangerous expansion of the unconstitutional ‘Stop WOKE Act,’ putting entire majors disfavored by legislators on the chopping block.
Professors are people too. While they may serve the institutions at which they teach, they do not exist to serve those institutions, and are free to express themselves fully outside of the classroom.
A professor at Florida’s Palm Beach Atlantic University said the school threatened to dismiss him if his course materials on racial justice are found to be “indoctrinating students.”
After ignoring FIRE’s warnings about the threat to academic freedom, Indiana University School of Medicine now appears to require faculty to sign a politicized honor code as part of its training on mitigating bias.
FIRE urges Florida lawmakers to remember that the First Amendment protects Americans of all political backgrounds by setting crucial limits on the power that politicians may wield within higher education.
When West Virginia University proposed changes to its faculty tenure, evaluation, and termination policy last fall, FIRE sounded the alarm that it would pose a serious threat to academic freedom.