The college educators behind the push to speak freely on campus

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Steven Salaita was a rising star in the field of American Indian studies.

In the fall of 2012, he applied for a job at the University of Illinois. Then, he lost everything.

“I had taken to Twitter and other forms of social media to condemn Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Palestine," Salaita remembers.

"And suddenly, I got an email out of the blue informing me that the job offer had been pulled."

Academic freedom on American campuses. Keith Whittington joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:19.0	This is on point.
0:20.1	I'm Magna Chakrabardi.
0:21.9	For more than a thousand years,
0:23.8	universities have aspired to be the place
0:26.4	where human knowledge blooms.
0:28.6	At times, they have failed to meet that aspiration.
0:32.0	But the very word, university,
0:34.2	contains within it their all-encompassing, ambitious purpose.
0:38.6	Universum, the Latin root, of course, meaning all things,
0:42.8	all people, the totality of all that exists.
0:47.3	But what if universities are no longer such places?
0:51.0	No longer open to the totality of all people, all knowledge.
0:56.0	What do we all lose?
0:57.3	Whether or not you've ever stepped foot on a university campus.
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