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Recent reporting from the American Association of University Professors has traced an uptick in the targeted harassment of faculty members, most often those accused of having a liberal bias and of teaching “controversial” topics.
The Takeaway spoke with Eric Ruiz Bybee, associate professor in the department of teacher education at Brigham Young University, about his recent experience of being harassed by conservative groups after standing up for a colleague who assigned students coursework on whiteness.
Plus, Chris Surprenant, Professor of Ethics, Strategy, and Public Policy Director of the University Honors Program and Director of the Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Institute at the University of New Orleans, shares how he has been targeted for receiving scholarly funding from a conservative philanthropy organization called the Charles Koch Foundation.
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Recent reporting from the American Association of University Professors has traced an uptick in the targeted harassment of faculty members, most often those accused of having a liberal bias and of teaching “controversial” topics.
The Takeaway spoke with Eric Ruiz Bybee, associate professor in the department of teacher education at Brigham Young University, about his recent experience of being harassed by conservative groups after standing up for a colleague who assigned students coursework on whiteness.
Plus, Chris Surprenant, Professor of Ethics, Strategy, and Public Policy Director of the University Honors Program and Director of the Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Institute at the University of New Orleans, shares how he has been targeted for receiving scholarly funding from a conservative philanthropy organization called the Charles Koch Foundation.

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