APA protects academic freedom

Another summer vacation come and gone (and too quickly), so here's a short note from the American Philosophical Association website on academic freedom and the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights" legislation about which I've previously posted:

The current campaign to promote "Academic Bill of Rights" legislation in state and national legislatures threatens to injure the practice of academic freedom in teaching and research by university professors. The threat posed to academic freedom, coupled with an increase in reports of philosophers as targets of harassment, has prompted the Committee for the Defense of Professional Rights of Philosophers to compile information and advice on its webpage. The committee urges philosophers to inform themselves about the proposed legislation and to report incidents of which they are aware (the posting of unauthorized "class canceled" signs, public labeling of faculty as "communists" or "terrorist sympathizers," and so on).