Really quite shocking to see what's happening at University of Southern California, as an International Alum it's particularly confusing to see USC make decisions specifically breaching 'American Values' like Freedom of Speech. When you choose to go overseas for research or study, you choose very particular universities and countries that you think will fit the themes, ideas and principles of your intended study -- seeing USC, and many other US Universities, go against Freedom of Speech, Expression and Assembly I think calls into question the value of Communications learning in those environments. How can you safely, fully express yourself in a research paper when there are direct, violent parameters around protest at your own university? Not to say that Australia or the UK do things specifically better, but the US university system, University of Southern California, all the big colleges looking for International Students, profess themselves, and particularly market themselves globally, as bastions of full, unrestrained education, and I think this is a shocking insight for International Alum (and hopefully prospective International Students) as to the strength of that marketing, and the reality of the situation.
The situation at USC for the past two weeks has been a comedy of incompetence with tragic consequences. Yet, I'm so proud of my USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism colleagues who drafted this full-throated defense of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Nothing like a crisis to crystallize one's values. https://lnkd.in/dkm8Je9B