673 University professors rally together to oppose courses on America’s founding

UNC Professors Oppose Proposed Legislation Requiring Students to Study Founding Documents

OAN Geraldyn Berry
UPDATED 4:40 PM – Wednesday, April 26, 2023

University of North Carolina (UNC) professors are taking a stand against proposed legislation that would require students to take classes on the nation’s governance and founding documents. In a public declaration signed by hundreds of professors, they claim that the additional courses and a different measure in the North Carolina House of Representatives would “violate fundamental academic freedom principles” and “replace faculty intellectual expertise with ideological force-feeding.”

The proposed House Bill 96 would mandate that students enroll in a 3-credit course on the origins and history of the United States. The course would cover texts such as the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, at least five Federalist Papers articles, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, and the Gettysburg Address. Meanwhile, H.B. 715 would abolish tenure at UNC and its associated institutions, set minimum class sizes, and require the university to disclose “all non-instructional research performed by higher education personnel at the institution.”

The professors denounced both legislations as an attack on “expertise,” arguing that American government courses constitute little more than indoctrination. “Our leaders continue to disregard campus autonomy, attack the expertise and independence of world-class faculty, and seek to force students’ educations into pre-approved ideological containers,” the letter said. “We must protect the principles of academic freedom and shared governance which have long made UNC a leader in public education. If enacted, we believe that these measures will further damage the reputation of UNC and the state of North Carolina and will likely bring critical scrutiny from accrediting agencies that know undue interference in university affairs when they see it.”

In March, H.B. 96 had passed through the North Carolina House of Representatives. The bill now makes its way to the Senate for approval.

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