Nearly 100 Harvard professors unite to protect ‘thinkers, oddballs, and nonconformists’

More than 90 Harvard University faculty have joined a recently formed Council on Academic Freedom at the university to promote and defend First Amendment ideals and intellectual diversity on campus.

“I’m hoping we can restore some of the dignity and respect that universities, and Harvard in particular, used to grant unconventional thinkers, oddballs, and nonconformists, who have always been the source of the most important new ideas,” Council Co-Leader and computer science Professor Harry Lewis told The College Fix.

The group plans to organize workshops, host guest lecturers, and teach courses, Council Co-Leader and Harvard Professor Flynn Cratty stated in an April 20 university news release.