§ 1983, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Professor Michael Levin has brought this action pursuant to federal civil rights law, 42 U.S.C. The college officials say that his views are odious, and rightly denounced, and that although he has committed no act of academic misconduct or discrimination against his students, and although there is no complaint by any of his students against him, they are permitted to structure the class schedule to provide alternative professors to "insulate" and "protect" his present and future students from his views. This case raises serious constitutional questions that go to the heart of the current national debate on what has come to be denominated as "political correctness" *898 in speech and thought on the campuses of the nation's colleges and universities.Ī professor who has had tenure for over sixteen years at one of America's most famous institutions of higher learning, singularly noted for its bracing environment of broad and untrammeled speech, claims that his tenure is in jeopardy, his students drawn away, his classes disrupted, his reputation injured, and his speech chilled as a result of the actions of his college's administrators, who are said to be repelled by his views on affirmative action quotas and the relative intelligence of blacks and whites, and who are said to be, by their actions, seeking to suppress those views.
Univer, New York City, for plaintiff.Ĭlement J. HARLESTON, President of the City College of the City University of New York, individually and in his official capacity and Paul Sherwin, Dean of the City College of the City University of New York, individually and in his official capacity, Defendants.
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