I agree with your opinion that we are "going to need all 7 solutions" but I think some will have more bang for the buck, and some will have more impact long term. It would be interesting to …
I agree with your opinion that we are "going to need all 7 solutions" but I think some will have more bang for the buck, and some will have more impact long term. It would be interesting to hear how various people consider the ordering of the 7 solutions. Where do I put my faith or money or trust, etc?
In order, I would say: 4516723. That is, I like idea 4 the most and 3 the least. Implicit in idea 4 is to educate the faculty (and admins) to educate the students in open inquiry etc. That's Heterodox Academy's bread and butter. Jon Haidt's photo is the upper right most on in the array of headshots you used to illustrate your blog posting. Traditionally, a newspaper puts its most important article at the upper right of the front page. So that fits here too. Greg L (FIRE) is one square to the left (he leads idea #1, which is my third place priority). My second priority would be your ideea 5, a judicial branch inside the university; that reminds me of the student-run honor system I experienced as an undergrad at UNC-CH. Very few other universities use one: UVA-Charlottesville and the military academies are ones I recall.
If cases that test the tension between (Title IX+DEI) and (academic freedom) were adjudicated by a somewhat independent panel of stakeholders (e.g. some faculty, some students, a trustee, an admin), I think a lot of cases would be resolved better (fairer) than the current method(s). Everyone would benefit from feeling confident that cases are handled more fairly.
More importantly than handling cases that come up will be creating a culture of respectful disagreement, so that cases don't come up in the first place. That's why your idea 4 would be my top priority.
As an exercise for the reader, how would YOU order the seven ideas? Extra for experts = what other idea might be missing?
The extra idea that comes to my mind and then I reject is "State legislators making laws defining what and how professors should teach and topics college students should learn." It doesn't surprise me that such an idea would not have been presented at a conference on academic freedom, except possibly as an example of a solution hat we do not welcome.
Thank you for summarizing. Here's another attendee's summary.
https://quillette.com/2023/01/11/a-report-from-the-stanford-academic-freedom-conference/
I agree with your opinion that we are "going to need all 7 solutions" but I think some will have more bang for the buck, and some will have more impact long term. It would be interesting to hear how various people consider the ordering of the 7 solutions. Where do I put my faith or money or trust, etc?
In order, I would say: 4516723. That is, I like idea 4 the most and 3 the least. Implicit in idea 4 is to educate the faculty (and admins) to educate the students in open inquiry etc. That's Heterodox Academy's bread and butter. Jon Haidt's photo is the upper right most on in the array of headshots you used to illustrate your blog posting. Traditionally, a newspaper puts its most important article at the upper right of the front page. So that fits here too. Greg L (FIRE) is one square to the left (he leads idea #1, which is my third place priority). My second priority would be your ideea 5, a judicial branch inside the university; that reminds me of the student-run honor system I experienced as an undergrad at UNC-CH. Very few other universities use one: UVA-Charlottesville and the military academies are ones I recall.
If cases that test the tension between (Title IX+DEI) and (academic freedom) were adjudicated by a somewhat independent panel of stakeholders (e.g. some faculty, some students, a trustee, an admin), I think a lot of cases would be resolved better (fairer) than the current method(s). Everyone would benefit from feeling confident that cases are handled more fairly.
More importantly than handling cases that come up will be creating a culture of respectful disagreement, so that cases don't come up in the first place. That's why your idea 4 would be my top priority.
As an exercise for the reader, how would YOU order the seven ideas? Extra for experts = what other idea might be missing?
The extra idea that comes to my mind and then I reject is "State legislators making laws defining what and how professors should teach and topics college students should learn." It doesn't surprise me that such an idea would not have been presented at a conference on academic freedom, except possibly as an example of a solution hat we do not welcome.