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Professors Speak Out

The Truth About Campus Investigations

Nicholas H. Wolfinger

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English
Academica Press
31 March 2025
Professors Speak Out showcases the powerful stories of eighteen university professors from various fields and backgrounds, all of whom have been investigated by their academic institutions. These shocking narratives reflect the rising frequency and increasing absurdity of campus investigations, which often result from the expression of disfavored opinions that should be protected by inalienable free speech rights and longstanding principles of academic freedom. As the reader will learn, the investigation itself is often the punishment, though the process can inflict serious additional sanctions. Some contributors lost their jobs, while others have faced a variety of other unwarranted consequences. By providing a badly needed platform for persecuted voices in contemporary academia, this unique volume exposes the grave injustice that menaces faculty members today and calls into serious question the reprehensible bureaucratic processes that allow for such investigations. Taken together, the eighteen contributors show how a new campus McCarthyism is brutally assaulting academic freedom.
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Imprint:   Academica Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781680535563
ISBN 10:   1680535560
Pages:   200
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nicholas H. Wolfinger is Professor of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, both in sociology. He is the author of Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (2005), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (edited with Lori Kowaleski-Jones, 2005), Do Babies Matter Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, 2013), Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (with W. Bradford Wilcox, 2016), and Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 (with Matthew McKeever, 2024). Wolfinger is the author of about 40 articles or chapters, as well as short pieces in The Atlantic, National Review, Huffington Post, and other outlets. Between 2016 and 2021, his university investigated him three times.

Reviews for Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations

""Having gone through an academic inquisition myself, I know all too well the perils the brave souls featured here went through. Like a samizdat collection from the gulag, their stories illustrate the illiberal takeover of higher education by political commissars and other apparatchiks."" - Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute ""I have read fairly widely studies of current challenges of higher education. This is the first to bring home the individual tragedies of professors caught up in the contemporary politicization of colleges and universities."" - Paul M. Sniderman, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy, Stanford University ""The testimonies in this important book provide a painful window onto the current state of our campuses. The authors' stories deserve careful, public discussion, the result of which, we can only hope, will be real change."" - Joshua T. Katz, Senior Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute, formerly Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, Princeton University ""Too many elite colleges have betrayed their own commitments to due process, free speech, and basic fairness. This book is an important exposé from those who have witnessed this unfairness firsthand: the professors. Read them in their own words; it's a vital effort to set the record straight."" - Robby Soave, Senior Editor, Reason


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