January 23, 2009

For Academic-Freedom, Against Speech Codes

By PETER SCHMIDT

Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, generally does not see eye to eye with critics who say college campuses are hotbeds of political correctness and liberal indoctrination. This month, when he debated Peter Wood, executive director of the National Association of Scholars at the NAS annual conference in Washington, over the meaning of academic freedom, both came out swinging.

Mr. Nelson repeatedly characterized the scholars' association as

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