Harvard University's new council on academic freedom plans to promote and uphold principles of free speech on campus, according to two professors on the council.
A former law professor said university officials need to enforce their own policies after students and educators heckled a judge and stopped his remarks.
"We also intend to inform new faculty about Harvard’s commitments to free speech and the resources available to them when it is threatened," the."We will encourage the adoption and enforcement of policies that protect academic freedom. When an individual is threatened or slandered for a scholarly opinion, which can be emotionally devastating, we will lend our personal and professional support.
A man looks at his mobile phone beside a sign for Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder "For every scholar who is punished, many more self-censor, knowing they could be next. It’s no better for the students, a majority of whom say that the campus climate prevents them from saying things they believe," they said. added that any community that is"repressing disagreement" is"doomed" and likely to"chain itself to error."
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