[PEN-L:33678] AAUP Commttee on Post 9/11 Academic Freedom

["Michael Hoover" <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The American Association of University Professors has
established a special committee to review and analyze
developments since September 11,2001,which impinge on
academic freedom. The horrific events of September 11
have brought in their wake renewed conflicts between
the imperatives of national security and the
imperatives of free teaching and research.
The committee welcomes information from scholars and
students about their own experiences or those of
others in dealing with restraints, threatened or
imposed, on controversial teaching or speech, with
problems encountered by foreign scholars and foreign
students in trying to enter or re-enter the United
States, or with the implementation of federal
legislation (for example, the USA Patriot Act) on
college and university campuses.

Information can be sent to Jonathan Knight, Associate
Secretary, AAUP,at jknight@xxxxxxxx, or at 1012 14th
Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005.