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I am an aspiring political operative with some interesting experiences under my belt. I've worked with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), helping run state and local campaigns on issues; served as President of the SUNY Student Assembly, representing 413,000+ students at 64 schools; served as a SUNY Trustee, advocating for SUNY's best future as a public University and helping find and approve a new Chancellor; helped MoveOn.org with their Call for Change campaign and the DNC fundraise for the 50-State Strategy; and done summer work with Obama for America, organizing eight communities in New Hampshire.

Meanwhile, I love writing and I've done work for campus papers, press kits, and state and national media, mostly pertaining to issue advocacy.

My areas of expertise are: K-12 public education funding, public higher education funding, student speech and voting rights, academic freedom, labor policy, and grassroots organizing methodology.

Fiction writing is a lot of fun, too! I do social fiction, science fiction, humor and social satire.

Education > Colleges & Universities (Other) Is professor bias a problem in our public colleges and universities?

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The debate over Academic Freedom has been ongoing since Universities have existed, but it has been boiling over for the past fifteen years. The Supreme Court has weighed in on this debate, and it's instructive to look at the issue from the Court's perspective, and also in the context of the ideological campaign that has fueled the fire. The Supreme Court has declared the campus to be a "marketplace of ideas," and the speech that is funded, both by Student Activity Fees (a "self-tax" by the student body) and by the salaries of professors, is to be respected regardless of viewpoint (a princi...

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