On January 16, 2024, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff sat on a panel with other distinguished higher education experts to discuss issues of free speech on college campuses after the October 7 crisis in Israel. Click HERE to read his full remarks.
The unnatural vices that too many higher education leaders have aided and abetted are clear. Whether they can do the hard work of embracing virtue is less so. It is our job to see that they do—or that the regimes change.
—Dr. Michael Poliakoff
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PodcastsInstitutional Neutrality
In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison analyze a new policy on teaching controversial topics in the University of Texas System. The podcast hosts also discuss what a new survey from Gallup/Lumina reveals about student free speech experiences on their campuses. Steve and Justin also debate an article from Inside Higher Ed that provides a Rawlsian defense of institutional neutrality. The show hosts also announce the University of Wyoming as this episode’s “Hero of the People” and a professor from Stanford University as RFC’s “Apparatchik of the Month.”
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