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Dr. Dorian Abbot: Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago
Professor Abbot was the focus of a highly publicized cancellation in October 2021 when MIT administrators canceled...
Abigail Thompson, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California-Davis, drew national attention in December 2019 with her Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “The University’s New Loyalty Oath.” Her bold challenge to the University of California’s use of diversity statements in faculty hiring inspired ACTA to honor her with a Hero of Intellectual Freedom Award. Professor Thompson argued that the rubric for assessing applicants’ diversity statements was not ideologically neutral, and that the hiring process constituted a possible infringement of academic freedom, as well as a threat to intellectual diversity. In this episode, she explores the topic with ACTA’s president, Michael Poliakoff.
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UC–Davis Professor, Abigail Thompson, Recognized as 2020 Hero of Intellectual Freedom by ACTA
WASHINGTON, DC – Dr. Abigail Thompson, chair of the mathematics department at the University […]
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KC Johnson to Receive Philip Merrill Award
WASHINGTON, DC—Robert David “KC” Johnson, professor of history at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, will receive the fifth annual Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education. The prize, sponsored by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, is the only one in the nation to honor those […]
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