A coalition led by the American Association of University Professors and the Student Press Law Center warns of escalating threats to the civic health of America's colleges as a result of the retaliatory removal of journalism advisers and other attacks on the freedom of the student media, calling for a "significant cultural readjustment" that values transparency and accountability over image control.
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Threats to campus free speech receiving heightened prominence, urgency
Groups representing college trustees and faculty are each calling for colleges to improve the climate for freedom of speech and press, which has been under attack not just from administrative censorship but from student and faculty pressure as well.