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For the last three years, members of the Free Exchange on Campus coalition have fended off attacks against higher education by David Horowitz, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), and allied organizations in no fewer than thirty states. While these attacks have sought to label higher education faculty members as complicit in the “indoctrination” of their students, Manufactured Controversy exposes these attacks as baseless and driven by political motives rather than the best interest of students.

Facts Still Count

In 2006, the Free Exchange on Campus coalition released Facts Count, documenting many of the inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and distortions that David Horowitz used to smear college and university faculty members in his book The Professors. Horowitz is back with the same partisan attacks on higher education that he was peddling three years ago in his new book, One-Party Classroom,and once again he substitutes ideology for factual analysis in pressing his dubious case. Free Exchange on Campus is reminding Horowitz with a new report that Facts Still Count.

Campus Voices Documents

The Campus Voices campaign is an exciting opportunity to bring together members of the campus community and engage them on the importance of the free exchange of ideas to a quality education. Free Exchange on Campus is pleased to offer campus activists the "Campus Voices Organizing Toolkit" to help facilitate discussions about academic freedom and free speech at America's college and university campuses. We've also provided promotional fliers for the Student Voices and Faculty Voices Essay/Video Contests. Get in on the discussion!

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Free Exchange Statement of Principles

Read Free Exchange's Statement of Principles which outlines the coaltion's four core beliefs that we fight to promote.

The "Faculty Bias" Studies: Science or Proaganda

In this report, higher education policy researcher Dr. John Lee examines eight studies that have been put forward as social science "research" to allege that faculty are politically biased and to argue that this is a problem requiring outside intervention. Lee demonstrates that none of these reports meet minimum criteria for valid social science research.

Facts Count: An Analysis of David Horowitz's "The Professors" (full report)

"Facts Count" examines David Horowitz’s book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Regnery, 2006), which brings up 101 academics on charges of indoctrinating their students with their political views. Since Mr. Horowitz’s charges are aimed at the core of professors’ professional ethics, we believe that they are not to be taken lightly. For Mr. Horowitz to accuse a single person of these charges—let alone 101—a reasonable person might expect him to do three things: examine the facts objectively, support his conclusions with sound evidence, and make recommendations that are in students’ best interests. We believe that Mr. Horowitz fails on all of these counts.