“This is extremely alarming for academic freedom,” said Anita Levy, a senior program officer in the AAUPs’ Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance. Faculty members who lack tenure “teach in precarious positions,” she said, and don’t “have economic security and may feel that they need to either self-censor or revise their curricula or their teaching methods.”
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