University of Florida

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/30/3021
  

  ‘It Just Felt Wrong’: U. of Florida Faculty Say Political Fears Stalled an Initiative on Race

  Faculty in the College of Education contend that University of Florida administrators are holding up the establishment of a concentration for doctoral students in the study of race and ethnicity in education, due to political pressure. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/16/2021
  

  U. of Florida Dean Says He Was Directed to Reject Professor’s Request to Testify Against the State

  by Emma Pettit

  His remarks suggest that the decision to bar professors from testifying against the state may have come from the top of UF. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  11/8/2021
  

  Despite Administration Reversal, Faculty Suit against U of Florida Goes Forward

  The professors claim that while the adminstration reversed itself as a matter of discretion, its "unconstituitonal" policy on conflicts of interest remains in place and threatens faculty's First Amendment rights. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11/5/2021
  

  UF Reverses Course; Profs can Testify in Voting Rights Suit

  Attorneys representing the professors said they were still planning to move forward with a lawsuit against the university.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/31/2021
  

  Serwer: Florida Silencing Academic Critics of Disenfranchisement Echoes End of Reconstruction

  Free speech debates miss a key point: some participants don't want to protect the right to speak as much as the right of the state to use its power to end political arguments. The role of Black Floridians as citizens was once such an argument, and disenfranchisement ended it. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/2/2021
  

  Restrictions on Faculty Testimony at UF Included Non-Paid Testimony, COVID Protocol

  The University's prior explanation, that faculty are free to serve as witnesses to litigation against the state on a pro-bono basis on their own time, appears to be contradicted by efforts to stop a pediatrics professor from testifying pro bono in favor of school mask mandates.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/1/2021
  

  U. of Florida’s Accreditor Will Investigate Denial of Professors’ Voting-Rights Testimony

  The University of Florida had told three faculty members that their work as consultants for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state's restrictive new voting laws are "adverse to the university's interests"; will this affect the school's accreditation as a violation of the institution's independence?