KC Johnson

KC Johnson is a history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Academic Questions

May 31, 2019

Due Process, DeVos, and the Courts

KC Johnson

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has made restoring campus due process and the presumption of innocence in sexual harassment cases a top priority. DeVos has proposed regulations that use lang......

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June 6, 2017

Forum: Citizenship versus the "New Civics"

Nicholas Capaldi, KC Johnson, Allen Mendenhall, Michael I. Krauss, Harry C. Boyte and William Voegeli

A forum on civics education responding to the NAS report Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics.

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March 28, 2017

Safe Spaces and Defending the Academic Status Quo

KC Johnson

In the Spring 2017 Academic Questions (vol. 30, no. 1), KC Johnson discusses higher education's reluctance to protect free speech and emerge from its ideological cocoon.

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