I share the concern presented here. However, there is a problem with this statement: "Rather than unnecessarily restricting open inquiry and constructive disagreement in our classrooms, we want to empower faculty and students to ask challenging questions and have difficult discussions in the pursuit of truth and knowledge, even if doing so makes people in the classroom feel sometimes uncomfortable." YOU may want this, but it is very clear that there are many academics who do not want this. This seems a blunt tool to deal with a greasy issue that manages to worm its way around most regulation.
Would it be wrong for a professor to proselytize for a religion in class? Many of the racial and sexual issues are promoted like religious ideas based on little or no evidence.
I know. Been there, too!
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/when-collegiality-becomes-censorship
I share the concern presented here. However, there is a problem with this statement: "Rather than unnecessarily restricting open inquiry and constructive disagreement in our classrooms, we want to empower faculty and students to ask challenging questions and have difficult discussions in the pursuit of truth and knowledge, even if doing so makes people in the classroom feel sometimes uncomfortable." YOU may want this, but it is very clear that there are many academics who do not want this. This seems a blunt tool to deal with a greasy issue that manages to worm its way around most regulation.
Would it be wrong for a professor to proselytize for a religion in class? Many of the racial and sexual issues are promoted like religious ideas based on little or no evidence.