{"id":8933,"date":"2019-02-06T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8933"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:27:10","slug":"inside-higher-ed-highlights-national-debate-about-academic-freedom-and-inclusive-learning-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/06\/inside-higher-ed-highlights-national-debate-about-academic-freedom-and-inclusive-learning-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Higher Ed Highlights National Debate About Academic Freedom and Inclusive Learning Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Important conversations are taking place in higher education nationwide about how learning is affected when racial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/inside-higher-ed-logo-2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8937 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/inside-higher-ed-logo-2018.png\" alt=\"Inside Higher Ed logo\" width=\"234\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>slurs are spoken in the classroom. This recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2019\/02\/01\/professor-suspended-using-n-word-class-discussion-language-james-baldwin-essay\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside Higher Ed article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> references a variety of opinions on the topic\u2014including perspectives from Augsburg faculty and students.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the article&#8217;s lead paragraph focuses on a specific classroom incident, the inclusivity review currently in progress at Augsburg is based on a broader scope of reported concerns, not on the single event named in the story. Because of Augsburg\u2019s commitment to respecting confidentiality of student and personnel information, the university does not intend to publicly share factual details about the full scope of the concerns reported and under review. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/28\/augsburg-university-statement-about-classroom-incident\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the university\u2019s public statement for further information<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is a complex issue, and I\u2019m proud to say that Augsburg\u2019s student newspaper, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/augsburgecho.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Echo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has done an excellent job covering the topic with nuance and accuracy,\u201d said Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow. \u201cOur student journalists have provided a platform for a range of voices reflecting an array of views and perspectives related to the campus conversation.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, Augsburg\u2019s faculty affirmed its commitment to academic freedom in the context of equity and inclusion; this affirmation is now part of the university\u2019s Student-Faculty Bias\/Discrimination policy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important conversations are taking place in higher education nationwide about how learning is affected when racial slurs are spoken in the classroom. This recent Inside Higher Ed article references a variety of opinions on the topic\u2014including perspectives from Augsburg faculty and students. While the article&#8217;s lead paragraph focuses on a specific classroom incident, the inclusivity &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8933"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8933\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}