Professors Reject Free Speech, Aim to Silence Debate on Campus
An influential faculty committee at Wellesley College, a prestigious women’s liberal arts college in Massachusetts, is calling for the school to stop inviting speakers they say cause students “harm” by presenting their ideas.
In an e-mail sent throughout Wellesley College, Wellesley’s Commission for Ethnicity, Race, and Equity (CERE) says it opposes allowing speakers with “controversial and objectionable beliefs” to speak at the college, even though the committee says it believes free speech “is essential to a liberal arts education.”
The e-mail was obtained by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group that promotes free speech on college campuses, and has been posted on the organization’s website....