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解散教职评议会并不否定公立大学教授的言论权
压制教师治理的新努力与法律现实相冲突：公立大学员工仍然受到保护......
来源:Diverse自 2025 年以来，至少有 5 个州的大学教职评议会已被解散或缩减为主要是仪式性或顾问性的角色。例如，在德克萨斯州，这是通过涵盖所有公立大学的立法来实现的。 In other states, institutional governing boards, such as those at Auburn University in Alabama and the University of Kentucky, voted to dissolve existing faculty senates.
These decisions have left institutional leaders and governing boards with greater authority over governance matters in areas where faculty traditionally played key roles, such as making curricular decisions.这些举措也代表着减少教师在机构事务中共同发言权的努力。 In Texas, for instance, institutional leaders have broad authority to remove professors as members of faculty senates, including for saying things that displease senior administrators.
我们可能会看到更多这样的国家行动和努力来压制集体和个人教师的声音。 After all, the Texas bill largely resembled model legislation that has been circulated by The Manhattan Institute, a right-leaning advocacy group.
这些对公立高等教育的敌意收购威胁到学术自由和员工的言论权。 Even as some states and individual universities are seeking to dampen faculty voice, either collectively or individually, recent legal cases show that employees at public colleges and universities possess important First Amendment speech rights when speaking as private citizens not subject to institutional control or censorship. In other words, even if legislatures or individual governing boards try to limit how faculty may speak as a group through an academic senate, administrators still may not violate individual faculty speech rights.除教师外，在履行工作职责之外作为普通公民的发言权也适用于其他公立大学员工。
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