Letters To
MALINA | On Academic Freedom and the Hillel Meeting
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I thank the members of Cornell’s faculty who reached out to me to express understandable concern.
Letters To
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | To President Kotlikoff: Stop “Scrutinizing” Your Faculty
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After more than 20 years in the classroom, from graduate school through my time at Cornell, I have learned that if students feel that their teachers are scrutinizing what they say, the result is silence. If students feel trusted to explore ideas, the result is education. And when professors — as we surely will after this morning’s Sun story — teach from a place of fear rather than trust, the result is generalized apathy at best, widespread paranoia at worst.