Academic freedom at The New School? Not if you quote an iconic black writer.

FIRE ^ | August 7, 2019 | Staff

[C19fan]

Author James Baldwin wrote that Americans need to conduct an “unflinching assessment of the record” in reckoning with the nation’s racial past. But when a professor used Baldwin’s writing to do just that, her university launched a racial discrimination investigation against her.

Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education calls on The New School to stand by its laudable but broken “legacy of academic freedom, tolerance, and free intellectual exchange” by immediately dropping its investigation of professor Laurie Sheck.

Sheck, a poet and novelist who is white, teaches a graduate course on “radical questioning” in writing. The course includes works by prominent African-American writers that examine racial discrimination, and Sheck prefaces her course with a warning that active engagement with literature involves a sense of unease and unsettlement.

[C19fan]

The irony it burns. A Leftie professor, perhaps of the old school, hosted on her own petard. The creators of the Frankfurt School of Marxism, aka, Cultural Marxism, fled Nazi Germany and many of them ended up at the New School in NYC.

[Reily]

Wasn’t William Ayers associated with this school?

[real saxophonist]

Back when I was in college, this place had just opened up, and I got a bunch of flyers in the mail. No way...