Should SDSU be allowed to"cancel"emeritus professors? | Gary Robbins - a podcast by San Diego Union-Tribune

A proposal to strip professors of their emeritus status if they do anything to harm the reputation of San Diego State University is causing a backlash among faculty who say the policy would suppress free speech and stoke the “cancel culture” movement sweeping the country.

This is the second major free speech controversy to roil the campus since last winter, and the new policy raises the possibility that a professor could be penalized for comments that he or she made in the past.

The proposal says that SDSU’s president, on the advice of the University Senate, would have the right to revoke a professor’s emeritus status based on conduct that occurred before or after they were granted the honorary title. Such conduct would have to harm the university’s reputation. The committee did not specify what that means.

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