Join Us on October 25 for a Workshop: How to Defend the Academic Freedom of All Faculty from Targeted Harassment

What should you do—and what shouldn’t you do—when a colleague is subject to targeted harassment?

What are the responsibilities of administrators, chairs, departments, faculty senates, and individual faculty members?

Over the past decade, targeted harassment has grown as one key component of organized, well-funded, rightwing attacks on higher education. Learn about the organizational networks that generate outrage-baiting stories about faculty members, proven strategies for dealing with them, and ways that you and your colleagues together can defend the rights of faculty members who are defamed, doxxed, or threatened.

Targeted harassment is a problem for all of us, not just individuals in the crosshairs—and addressing it requires you to be informed and prepared. Targeted harassment threatens the academic freedom of all faculty members; it aims to isolate faculty from each other; and it aims to incite rash reactions from colleagues and administrations—public denunciations, unilateral discipline, and more—that undermine due process procedures necessary to protect academic freedom.

This workshop will feature Professors Isaac Kamola and Heather Steffen of Faculty First Responders, who are also contributors to the new Researcher Support Consortium. These are the preeminent national organizations that have studied targeted harassment and advised faculty and administrations nationwide.

If you are experiencing targeted harassment, please contact AAUP-Penn. You are also welcome to attend.

If you are NOT experiencing targeted harassment, this workshop is for you.

Join Zoom Meeting:
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Meeting ID: 959 7872 7174

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