Wisconsin Scales Back Its Faculty Speech CodeSpeech Codes at Madison: the Old and the New

By ROBIN WILSON

Professors will now have blanket protection for all comments that are 'germane' to a course

Professors at the University of Wisconsin at Madison last week severely weakened its faculty speech code, stopping just short of abolishing it altogether.

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