Jonathan Friedman

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Jeffrey Sachs |Jonathan Friedman |Jeffrey Sachs teaches |In Canada

Academic freedom is about the freedom to choose: the freedom to research this problem and not that one, to consider or advance one argument in the classroom and to criticize another. But freedom of choice only means something if the choices themselves are meaningful. Part of how colleges and universities make sure faculty members’ choices have meaning is through shared governance. And shared governance is under attack. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for less than $10/month.

Dec 4, 2024 | foamfrat.com | Jonathan Friedman

Let’s take a trip way back to 2016. You’re me, and you’re in paramedic school, in the thick of the cardiology section. You’re learning about hypotension and the various ways we can fix it. Hypovolemic hypotension gets 20 cc/kg of normal saline, hemorrhage or not. Sepsis gets 20 cc/kg of normal saline, acidosis or not. Cardiogenic shock gets…you guessed it, normal saline.

Apr 11, 2024 | pen.org | Jonathan Friedman |Dolly Parton

In 2022, Toby Price, then an assistant principal in Hinds County, MS read a book called “I Need a New Butt!” to second graders, who, being the target age for fart jokes, responded with glee. His superintendent responded by suspending and then terminating him, claiming the book was inappropriate, and that reading it violated “generally recognized professional standards.” At the ensuing administrative hearing, the school board upheld Price’s termination by a 2-1 vote (with two abstentions).

Mar 8, 2024 | pen.org | Jonathan Friedman

Should a professor’s comments outside the classroom lead to his suspension and investigation as a faculty member? That is the situation at Texas Tech, which placed Professor Jairo Fúnez-Flores on paid leave and opened an investigation into his conduct this week, after calling his social media posts about Israel and the war in Gaza, “hateful, antisemitic, and unacceptable,” and “antithetical” to the university’s values.

Feb 21, 2024 | news.columbia.edu | Jonathan Friedman

On February 15, a standing-room-only crowd of students, faculty, and staff gathered in Pulitzer Hall for a panel discussion on civil dialogue. The event was co-hosted by University Life and Columbia Journalism School, as part of the Dialogue Across Difference initiative, to explore how the often binary conversations around current events inform our understanding of democracy, the elements that prevent us from coming together for civil discourse, and where we go from here.