Podcast: Understanding Academic Freedom Interview

BY HANK REICHMAN

James Vernon, the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of Historical past on the College of California at Berkley and former co-chair of the Berkeley College Affiliation, can also be main Berkeley’s not too long ago launched World Democracy Commons undertaking.  I used to be honored that James invited me to interview for the primary installment of this system’s new month-to-month podcast collection that may “handle the myriad forces looking for to foreclose public universities as areas of critique and democratic protest throughout the globe.”  To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Free Speech Motion at Berkeley, and the introduction of recent restrictions on protests on the College of California and at over 100 campuses throughout the U.S., my dialog with James explores the connection of free speech and educational freedom to the delicate historical past of democracy in America over the previous century.

This was one of the crucial fascinating and stimulating discussions I’ve had on this matter and I hope readers of the Academe weblog will test it out   You may take heed to the hour-long podcast or learn the transcript right here:

Understanding Tutorial Freedom: Interview with Hank Reichman

Contributing editor Hank Reichman is professor emeritus of historical past at California State College, East Bay; former AAUP vice-president and chair of the AAUP Basis; and from 2012-2021 Chair of AAUP’s Committee A on Tutorial Freedom and Tenure. His e-book, The Way forward for Tutorial Freedom, based mostly partially on posts to this weblog, was printed in 2019.  His Understanding Tutorial Freedom was printed in October, 2021; a second version shall be printed in March 2025.