Brooklyn College Reverses Decision in Academic Freedom Scandal
At 6:00pm this evening, Brooklyn College will officially announce that it has decided to reverse its earlier decision to fire Kristofer Petersen-Overton from his class on Middle East Politics and rehire him immediately and unconditionally.
The Advocate thanks everyone who contributed their voices to the defense of academic freedom at CUNY this past week. Your hard work and energies helped defeat political pressures that sought to compromise the institional integrity of Brooklyn College and the City University of New York.
Updates to follow as they become available!
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Way to go, excellent effort, GCA. If this was allowed to stand as a precedent, an intellectually fraudulent ripple effect would have chilled free speech and academic freedom around the country. David Horowitz is gonna freak out!
Kudos to the GC Advocate and its tireless staff! I’m sure your round-the-clock efforts helped bring Brooklyn College to their senses.
This is an excellent example and what we can do as a community to protect our academic freedom and support young scholars who lack the protections many of us can take for granted. I also commend President Karen Gould for her willingness to take a second look at the case and reconsider a bad decision regardless of the political pressures of Assemblyman Hikind. Best of luck for the semester, Kris.
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A victory in a conflict that should never have been necessary.
[...] College’s decision today to reinstate Kristofer Petersen-Overton’s teaching position is being hailed as a victory for academic freedom. [...]
Im wacht now
One adjunct’s rights upheld…only some 799,999 adjuncts’ rights left to protect.
I second that!