Cary Nelson was president of the American Association of University Professors from 2006 to 2012. His most recent book is Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (Academic Studies Press, 2024).
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The Review | Opinion
Its decision to allow academic boycotts betrays its values.
The Review
A Michigan professor’s refusal to recommend a worthy student for study in Israel is both an ethical breach and potentially discriminatory.
The Review
The election of Donald Trump makes it even more important that the scholarly group and others like it stand on evidence and principle, not politics.
The Review
As tempting as it may be, such an embargo would deny the very values it attempts to protect.
The Conversation
What the assembly’s anti-Israel resolution revealed most clearly was a lack of ethics among those who barely pushed it through, writes Cary Nelson.
The Review
For these fields, the assessment, accountability, and quantifiable-outcomes movement is a benighted fantasy of mastering the unmasterable.
Commentary
Without academic freedom or job security for professors, education suffers. Americans should expect better.
The Chronicle Review
Cary Nelson says the organization needs more openness and a deeper connection with all its constituents.
The Review
About a hundred prisoners filed in, hobbled with leg irons and bound together by a long chain. The four of us onstage began to perform a series of familiar folk songs. “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” was among them. My main job at first was to hide my complete lack of musical skill, for I was there…
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About a hundred prisoners filed in, hobbled with leg irons and bound together by a long chain. The four of us onstage began to perform a series of familiar folk songs. “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” was among them. My main job at first was to hide my complete lack of musical skill, for I was there…