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Originally posted by RACooper
Just to play "Devil's Advocate" here... are there any examples that can be found that involve the cancelling of study abroad programs - either 'liberal' or from other countries sending students to the US?
If this is a relatively isolated case of nationalist politics influencing academic freedom - then yes bad... (I'd also suspect somewhat promotional too).
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Why are people making this an issue of academic freedom?
They just stopped their study abroad program to Spain. I doubt that they won't let students go study there and transfer credits - it just isn't an official school program. Nobody is stopping professors or barring anyone of Spanish descent from teaching.
They can choose to stop the program in Spain and open one up in France because they love crepes or because they don't like the policies of the country against their own country. Is food preference just more politically correct than policy preference?
-Rudey