If anyone has pictures of protesters with signs from this rally, which reportedly was held today….I’d love to see ’em.
One University of Michigan faculty member wants to make sure university leaders take great care in responding to the controversial Freedom of Information Act requests filed by theMackinac Center late last month.
Ian Robinson, a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, has collected about 1,600 signatures through a MoveOn.org petition asking people to “protect academic freedom on campus.”
Robinson said he’s asking U-M officials only to follow the example of University of Wisconsinofficials when they responded to similar requests for emails of professor William Cronon. The university did not provide emails that were related to students, potential students, professorial organizations, personal communications, intellectual communications among scholars and communications related to personnel matters, all of which amounted to a denial of the request.
I continue to maintain that faculty opposed to the same transparency demanded of others is wrongheaded.
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