The goal is to expose the Horowitz-created Academic Bill of Rights and related initiatives, including his Students For Academic Freedom organization, for the fraud that it is: a well-funded campaign to deprive faculty and students of their right to teach and learn with the full protection of academic freedom.

To counter ABOR, Free Exchange members are using public education strategies to update students and the public about attempts to limit academic freedom and free speech on America’s campuses. They are taking action at the grass roots: talking to students and parents, managing a blog, writing op-eds, serving on panels, lobbying their state legislatures and working with the local and national media.

Most coalition members also provide background information and updates on coalition activities and the Academic Bill of Rights on their Web sites:
American Association of University Professors (www.aaup.org)
American Civil Liberties Union (www.aclu.org)
American Federation of Teachers (www.aft.org/higher_ed)
Center for American Progress (www.americanprogress.org)
Campus Progress (www.campusprogress.org)
Center for Campus Free Speech (www.campusspeech.org)
National Association of State PIRGs (www.uspirg.org)
National Education Association (www.nea.org/he)
NEA Student Program (www.nea.org/student-program)
People for the American Way Foundation (www.pfaw.org)
Young People For (www.youngpeoplefor.org)
United States Student Association (www.usstudents.org)
Voices for Planned Parenthood (www.plannedparenthood.org/vox)

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