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It has become increasingly common in academia to promote statements that formally recognize indigenous ties to the land on which a university sits, and the University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering encourages professors to include a land acknowledgement on their syllabi, and included recommended language.
Professor Stuart Reges learned the hard way that faculty are expected to parrot the school’s recommended language on this controversial topic - or else. Administrators censored a land acknowledgement on his syllabus because it didn’t conform to the University’s prescribed viewpoint. Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called on UW to ensure that faculty, if they choose to address this topic of public debate in their syllabi, can not just use the university’s statement, but can craft their own, free from retaliation or censorship.
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