Standing Up for Academic Freedom By Phil Orenstein

This is the story about an embattled student who stood up to challenge his incompetent radical professor and the dramatic outcome that ensued. Aaron Haberer is a student from Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), who received a failing grade for disputing his professor’s virulent anti-America, anti-religious demagoguery in the classroom. Aaron’s story is an example of the type of flagrant abuses of student academic rights that increasingly typifies much of the college experience today. This testimony is meant to show that the more students have the courage to complain, the better the chances that some action will be taken. Yet there are many such cases that never hit the radar. In most cases, school officials have failed to step in or come to the aid of a beleaguered student as they did in Aaron’s case, but though they may fear repercussions in their grades or careers, if enough students and faculty are bold enough to speak out when they experience professors infringing on their academic rights or using the classroom for indoctrination, then there is a greater likelihood that college administrators, trustees and faculty of good sense will step in to remove the bad apples before they infect the rest of the barrel.

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