Professors in North Carolina and other red states are lashing out against bills moving through Republican-led legislatures that would remove or weaken academic tenure and counter divisive political ideology.
Hundreds of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) professors signed a letter published on April 24 in the university’s student newspaper opposing a tenure bill and another bill requiring the teaching of the Constitution and America’s founding.
At UNC-Chapel Hill, 673 professors who complained that the bills violated their “academic freedom” and constituted government overreach signed the letter.
“Woke” university policies and teaching is commanding increasing attention in conservative states where critics say colleges have been taken over by social justice ideologies that stifle education….