A Tennessee school has learned — again — that forcing patriotism violates the First Amendment. Students can’t be punished for sitting during the Pledge.
A third of faculty say they self-censor their written work, nearly four times the number of social scientists who said the same in 1954 at the height of McCarthyism.
However difficult it might be for universities to reestablish these norms after decades of encouraging the opposite, failing to do so will have dire consequences.
FIRE wrote the UNC School of Medicine about recommendations from a DEI task force report that, if implemented, would violate faculty members’ First Amendment rights.
