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Presidents’ Day in the US
By some reasoning, the first “natural-born” American president was not George Washington or John Adams. It was Martin Van Buren the eighth president.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
He was born in 1782, six years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
All seven presidents before Van Buren, and William Henry Harrison, the 9th president, technically were not “natural-born” citizens.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
They were born before 1776 when the American states were still British colonies. I'm Ashley Thompson.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
College professors and their students often say they should be permitted to pursue knowledge without too many restrictions from the government.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
One organization that supports the idea of academic freedom is the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
The AAUP is a non-profit group based in Washington D.C. that aims to support academic freedom and tenure
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
The group is concerned that national and state political leaders are interfering too much with colleges and universities.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
Universities. It pointed to hearings at the U.S.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
Congress in December that brought the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania to Washington.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
They each were asked if they would punish speech calling for genocide against the Jewish people.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
In the days and weeks after the hearing, the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard stepped down from their jobs.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
Some said the answers they gave to Congress played a part.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
At first, Harvard president Claudine Gay received support from a number of Harvard professors.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
But she decided to leave her job after being accused of plagiarism in her academic writing.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
After Gay left her position, the AAUP spoke out about the way influential people worked to push her out.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
Irene Mulvey is the head of AAUP. She said the way Gay was pushed out of her job “(did) not bode well for academic freedom.”
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
It said actions at the New College of Florida, a small school in Florida’s State University System, did not meet “widely accepted standards of academic government.”
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
The group said Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, had changed the college’s top leadership group to restrict academic freedom.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
AAUP described some of the changes that began in early 2023 in a report released last December.
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Professors’ Group Speaks Out about Changes at Florida College
The report is called “Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.”
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