A TESTIMONIAL. Unsung Heroes.

Since the 1980s, there has been a handful of faculty members who have sacrificed time, energy, peace, and, too often, fair treatment, in order to stand up for the rights of their students and their colleagues. It is hard to imagine their colleges and universities without them. They bear witness to the deepest values of critical mind, liberty, legal equality, and fairness. They speak truth to campus power. They rally opposition to tendentious or invidiously discriminatory programs. They do everything they can to hold administrators to the promises of academic freedom to which those administrators subscribe in theory, but, alas, subscribe so rarely in practice.

Read and understand.