Universities’ Reliance on Contingent Faculty Endangers Free Speech on Campus
When universities rely heavily on contingent labor, they do more than reduce their own bottom lines. The post
Universities’ Reliance on Contingent Faculty Endangers Free Speech on Campus appeared first on Guernica.
The question of whether faculty members suppress students’ right to free speech has been building since the election, but has become more acute in the wake of Charlottesville. In her recent New York Times op-ed, “The ‘Free Speech’ Hypocrisy of Right-Wing Media,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a tenure-track faculty member at Princeton University, highlights the hypocrisy inherent in right-wing critiques of “leftist oppression of free speech” on campus. However, what Taylor’s article only briefly addresses is the way that controversies surrounding free speech and safe spaces drastically exacerbate academia’s current labor problems.
While many believe that most professors have the
