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Hundreds of professors at the University of North Carolina signed a public letter Tuesday opposing legislation that would require university students to take courses on America’s government and founding documents.
The 673 UNC Chapel Hill professors revealed the public letter Tuesday, arguing the new courses and another bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives would constitute an infringement on the university’s “academic freedom.”
The first piece of legislation, House Bill 96, would require students to take a 3 credit-hour course covering America’s founding and history. Required reading for the course would include the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, at least five essays from the Federalist Papers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Gettysburg Address.
The professors wrote, “H.B. 96 violates core principles of academic freedom. It substitutes ideological force-feeding for the intellectual expertise of faculty.”
The next piece of legislation, H.B. 715, will “’prospectively eliminate academic tenure and establish (a) uniform contracting procedure for faculty at constituent institutions and community colleges.’ Contract terms will range from one to four years; the new law would go into effect on July 1, 2024. The bill grants the BOT the power to ‘[e]nsure efficient use of institutional resources, including regularly evaluating and eliminating unnecessary or redundant expenses, personnel, and areas of study,'” they wrote.
The letter stated, “Our leaders continue to disregard campus autonomy, attack the expertise and independence of world-class faculty, and seek to force students’ educations into pre-approved ideological containers. We must protect the principles of academic freedom and shared governance which have long made UNC a leader in public education.”
They continued, “If enacted, we believe that these measures will further damage the reputation of UNC and the state of North Carolina and will likely bring critical scrutiny from accrediting agencies that know undue interference in university affairs when they see it.”
@UNC has been a dumpster fire for years with its insane Leftist faculty running the show. Now these lunatics are whining about oversight from the #NCGA. It’s time they grow up. https://t.co/y0i6dtMG3O
— Sloan Rachmuth (@SloanRachmuth) April 25, 2023
The left considers teaching our nation’s history and founding documents, “indoctrination.” The stench of liberalism reeks of hatred for this nation. #constitution #BillofRights #USHistory https://t.co/gFWVt92CcA
— Mark Walters (@aarmark) April 26, 2023
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