Campus Culture Wars and Targeted Attacks on Faculty Monday, October 10, 10:30-12:00 Attacks upon academic freedom, from all quarters, are nothing new. Universities are now facing an unprecedented, nationally coordinated and well-funded assault. Join us in a conversation with Jennifer Lundquist and Isaac Kamola.
Jennifer H. Lundquist is Professor of Sociology and Senior Associate Dean of Research and Faculty.
Development with the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She works with faculty to support their research and career development, and recently developed the University’s toolkit supporting faculty academic freedom in the face of outside harassment for their research, teaching and public engagement.
Isaac Kamola is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. He is coauthor of Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War, and author of Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary. He is the creator of Faculty First Responders, a program that monitors right-wing attacks on academics and provides resources to help faculty members and administrators respond to manufactured outrage.
Sponsored by the Boise State University Federation of Teachers