This webinar occurred on September 1, noon to 1pm (CT). A recording is available here.

Academic Freedom Panelists Pictures

This panel discussion will explore the scope and definition of academic freedom as a human rights concern, and engage with recent challenges to academic freedom on our campus, around the country and around the world. Attendees will be invited to submit questions. 

Panelists include:

  • Dr. Teresa Marshall, Professor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at the University of Iowa and President of the University of Iowa’s Faculty Senate and Council
  • Dr. Chelsea Blackburn Cohen, Senior Program Officer for North America at the Scholars at Risk Network
  • Dr. Julie Schmid, Executive Director of the American Association of University Professors

Panelists biographies:

  • Dr. Marshall is a Professor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at the University of Iowa. She completed her bachelor’s degree in hospital dietetics at the University of Illinois and her dietetic internship and doctoral degree in human nutrition at the University of Iowa. She practiced pediatric nutrition in the Center for Developmental Disabilities prior to joining the College of Dentistry full time in 2000. Within the College, she designed and implemented both the nutrition and evidence-based practice curriculums. In addition to teaching the nutrition curriculum, she currently serves as the Director of the Student Research Program and is the Michael W. Finkelstein Centennial Professor of Teaching. Dr. Marshall’s primary research interests address the relationships among dietary behaviors including sugar sweetened beverage intakes, dental caries, and/or growth in rural Iowan, inner city African American, and rural Native American children. She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Society for Nutrition, the International Association for Dental Research, and the American Academy of Cariology.  She is a research editor for the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, served on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ 2020 Dietary Guidelines Collaborative, and served as a section author of the 2020 Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health. She was a 2016 recipient of Colgate/American Dental Association/American Association for Dental Research’s Evidence-Based Dentistry Award for Leadership in Implementing EBD and the 2020 recipient of the American Society for Nutrition’s  Roland L. Weinsier Award for Excellence in Medical or Dental Nutrition Education. Dr. Marshall represents the College of Dentistry on the University of Iowa’s Faculty Senate and Council and is currently President of the Faculty Senate.
  • Dr. Chelsea Blackburn Cohen is Senior Program Officer, North America at the Scholars at Risk Network, where she is responsible for research and services related to hosting threatened scholars, advocacy activities and programming, and workshops and learning opportunities that promote academic freedom and core higher education values throughout the United States and Canada. Her scholarship centers on US higher education policy, internationalization, knowledge production, and academic freedom. Blackburn Cohen has a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Dr. Julie Schmid is the Executive Director of the American Association of University Professors. She as formerly the chief of staff of AFT-Wisconsin, which represents higher education faculty as well as K–12 teachers and public employees throughout the state. She has worked for faculty unions around the country, including as coordinator for the Portland State University AAUP chapter and as an activist with COGS-UE Local 896, a union for graduate student employees at the University of Iowa, where Schmid earned her PhD. She served as a senior program officer in the AAUP’s Department of Organizing and Services from 2002 to 2008.

 

Resources from the Academic Freedom Webinar