FROM AAUP: “UNC System President Peter Hans’ new policy reclassifying course descriptions and syllabi as public records and mandating the creation of an online database to house all course syllabi for a given semester poses a clear and unnecessary risk to North Carolina’s students, faculty, and communities. This new directive is an effort to intimidate instructors whose research and teaching delve into subject matter that some politicians don’t want to see explored. Dark money–funded right-wing activists and their allies in the UNC System’s leadership are attempting to strangle critical thought and the free exchange of academic thought by harassing faculty, disrupting student learning, and threatening the pursuit of truth. Ultimately, Peter Hans’ regulation amounts to a doxxing database that will further empower those attempting to censor teaching and learning in the UNC System.” Read more here.