Faculty targetted by the right-wing rage machine (or threatened with violence by crazed students!)

IHE reviews recent cases and university responses.  (I addressed this topic at CHE a few months back.)  Kudos to Kent Syverud, President of Syracuse University and a law professor, for his response to attacks on a professor at Syracuse (as reported in the IHE article):

Saying he’d received messages insisting that he “denounce, censor or dismiss” [Professor] Cloud for her speech, Syverud said, “No. We are and will remain a university. Free speech is and will remain one of our key values. I can't imagine academic freedom or the genuine search for truth thriving here without free speech.”

He continued, “Our faculty must be able to say and write things -- including things that provoke some or make others uncomfortable -- up to the very limits of the law. The statement at issue is, I believe, within those limits. I intend to act accordingly.”