• Professors at the Protest

  • Sep 17 2024
  • Length: 31 mins
  • Podcast

Professors at the Protest

  • Summary

  • When protests against the Israel-Hamas war swept across college campuses this past spring, student activists were joined in some cases by their professors. That’s what happened at Indiana University, where state police led a particularly aggressive crackdown on demonstrators. The professors’ reasons for participating were varied and complex, but their decisions point toward a thorny and persistent question: Do faculty members have any business joining student protests? Guest: Kate Hidalgo Bellows, staff reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education Related Reading: Mideast War, Midwest Crisis: Indiana U. made a series of unpopular decisions. Then it called the police on protesters. ‘These Terms are Just Absurd’: How One University Disciplined Professors Accused of Assisting an Encampment As an 8-Day Protest Shut Down a University, Administrators and Faculty Sparred Over What to Do Cooley law firm’s review Indiana University’s handling of protests. For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters.
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