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	Encyclopedia: Alan Carney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alan Carney (Born David Boughal) (born December 22, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York; died May 2, 1973 in Van Nuys, California) was an American actor and comedian.
		Alan Charles Kors has been a defender of academic freedom Academic freedom is a widely used and championed phrase, but an often poorly defined concept with different meanings in different cultures and different contexts.
		Alan Charles Kors co-founded and is currently the chairman of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a group concerned with civil liberties in academia in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alan-Carney (701 words)

	Academic Freedom Conference: Speaker Biographies. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alan Charles Kors graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1964, and he received his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University, in European History.
		Kors has written extensively on the 17th and 18th centuries, and he currently is editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, an international project that will be published in four volumes by 2002.
		Kors has fought for academic freedom since his arrival in the academic world, and in recent times this has led him into national prominence as a critic of political correctness.
	www.ssc.wisc.edu /~whansen/confbios.html (759 words)

	Alan Charles Kors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alan Charles Kors is an intellectual historian, specializing in the French Enlightenment.
		Kors has also been active as an expert in academic freedom since his arrival at Penn.
		Kors co-founded---with civil libertarian Harvey A. Silverglate---and is currently the chairman of the Board of Directors of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Charles_Kors (470 words)

	alan charles kors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alan Charles Kors has been a defender of academic freedom since his arrival at the University of Pennsylvania.
		In 1993, he defended Eden Jacobowitz in the infamous "water buffalo case." He is a frequent contributor to Reason (magazine).
		Alan Charles Kors is currently the Co-Director of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Alan_Charles_Kors.html (197 words)

	The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy : The Shadow University
		This is the central question of Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate’s The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses.
		Kors and Silverglate start from a specific example, the infamous “water buffalo” affair at the University of Pennsylvania (for a brief summary, please read “Crimes of the Mind?” on pages 12-13 of this issue).
		Kors, a history professor at Penn, served as advisor to the student, Eden Jacobowitz.
	www.popecenter.org /recommended_reading/article.html?id=1323 (1033 words)

	Authors
		Alan Charles Kors (Ph.D., Harvard University) has been teaching European intellectual history since 1968 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is professor of history.
		Kors was confirmed by the United States Senate in 1992 to the Council of the National Endowment of the Humanities, serving in that capacity for six years.
		Kors is a contributing editor of Reason magazine, and he has written and lectured widely on the assault upon liberty and freedom of conscience on America’s campuses.
	www.shadowuniv.com /about-authors.html (875 words)

	School of Arts & Sciences - University of Pennsylvania
		Kors has been teaching courses on European intellectual history at Penn for more than 35 years and has received numerous honors for his commitment to teaching excellence.
		Kors was confirmed by the United States Senate in 1992 to the National Council on the Humanities, serving in that capacity for six years.
		Kors has been involved in the defense of academic freedom since his arrival at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /home/news/kors_medal.html (352 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses - Alan Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Traversing a minefield of thorny issues with passionate conviction, Kors, a University of Pennsylvania history professor, and Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney, charge that the "political and cultural left" is today the worst abuser of the principles of open, equal free speech.
		Kors and Silverglate ostensibly are interested not in the partisan politics surrounding campus speech controversies but rather in establishing the universal desirability of pure free speech in universities today.
		Kors (history, U. of Pennsylvania) and Silverglate, a criminal and civil rights lawyer, argue that US colleges have been so concerned about political correctness that they have adopted rules that suppress students' and teachers' First Amendment rights and freedom of conscience.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=5WYE0UCBK9&mscssid=4EFWXJHBAHSH2MWD00CGNDBFPTPRF0RQ&isbn=0684853213 (969 words)

	Critical Mass - More on Penn free speech flap
		Kors went on to co-author with Boston civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate The Shadow University, a landmark study of how America's colleges and universities routinely violate the civil liberties of students and faculty.
		Kors said on Wednesday that although the university is a private institution and is not legally held to the same First Amendment standards as a public institution, university policies protect students' right to free expression as if it were.
		In Jacobowitz's case, Alan Charles Kors, a professor of history at the university and co-author of The Shadow University, successfully helped the student defend himself.
	www.erinoconnor.org /archives/2005/12/more_on_penn_fr.html (796 words)

	Alan Charles Kors < Historians < Academics < Career < : news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Professor Kors is the author and editor of several books on European intellectual history, including D’Holbach’s Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris; Atheism in France, 1660-1729: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief; and Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France, and Germany.
		Alan Charles Kors, the Penn History professor who joined Geier in defending the photographer, is similarly impressed.
		Alan Charles Kors, a History professor who defended the photographer from the charges before the case was dropped, had called for a University investigation...
	www.schema-root.org /people/career/academics/historians/alan_charles_kors (573 words)

	Through the FIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kors and company privately let the administrators in question know what true liberty means â” and promise that the world will hear about it if classic liberal principle is trampled.
		The article in question featured an interview with FIRE founder, Alan Charles Kors, and told administrators in no uncertain terms that, while they might find Kors's views shocking or offensive, they had best be forewarned.
		Kors: I don't distinguish students and professors by blood as you have just done, and I don't assume that there is a "minority" perspective that follows from blood.
	www.boundless.org /2002_2003/features/a0000666.html (1637 words)

	MenWeb - Men's Issues: The Shadow University: Book Review
		Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, The Shadow University The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (New York, NY: Free Press, 1998).
		Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate tell a chilling tale of university administrators turned Grand Inquisitors, of students and faculty stripped of their basic due process rights, of a freshman orientation system intended to indoctrinate and intimidate.
		Kors and Silverglate document precisely how inhospitable campuses are today to the pursuit of knowledge and the debate of ideas.
	www.menweb.org /shaduniv.htm (526 words)

	Perspective: Universities tout diversity, then muzzle free speech
		Charles Li, the dean of the graduate division and a target of Brown's attack, has backed up this threat, saying the thesis is a university publication and as such the committee has the right to evaluate "all parts." Brown retorts that his thesis is not in any way a university publication."It's my copyright," Brown says.
		The organization sprang out of the research done by civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate and University of Pennsylvania history professor Alan Charles Kors in their book The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses.
		Silverglate and Kors began the group because they recognized the insane extremes of campus speech and harassment codes were smothering individualism and freedom of speech at the nation's universities.
	www.sptimes.com /News/043000/Perspective/Universities_tout_div.shtml (623 words)

	William F. Buckley Jr. on NRO
		Alan Charles Kors, the president of FIRE, is a hefty intellectual, a historian who has written widely on 18th-century studies and has defended academic freedom vigorously.
		They mobilized, a few weeks ago, to affirm the right of a woman poet at the University of Alaska to publish a poem even though, if one dug deep in it, one could note a despondency over that part of American Indian culture (she is herself part Indian) associated with sex abuse and alcoholism.
		Kors has been active in addressing complaints against the Orwellian (a necessary word here) appetite in many colleges to instill an altogether unnatural race consciousness, designed to encourage guilt.
	www.nationalreview.com /buckley/buckleyprint041001.html (745 words)

	Penn: Office of University Communications: Alan Charles Kors Wins National Humanities Medal
		Alan Charles Kors, a University of Pennsylvania history professor, is one of 12 recipients of the 2005 National Humanities Medal.
		The National Humanities Medal, first awarded in 1989 by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the Charles Frankel Prize, honors individuals and organizations whose work deepens the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadens citizens' engagement with the humanities or helps preserve and expand America's access to important humanities resources.
		Kors served on the National Council on the Humanities for six years and has served on the executive boards of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and The Historical Society.
	www.upenn.edu /pennnews/article.php?id=872 (215 words)

	The Shadow University
		Kors and Silverglate demonstrate that when these colleges, purportedly devoted to liberal education, treat students in disciplinary proceedings, they make the notorious Star Chamber seem liberal in comparison.
		"Alan Charles Kors, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvey A. Silverglate, a civil liberties lawyer, deliver the unexpected....
		To their credit, Kors and Silverglate are old-fashioned civil libertarians who support everyone's right to sound off....
	www.shadowuniv.com (440 words)

	United Press International - Life & Mind - University in Pa. sued over speech code (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		FIRE's president, University of Pennsylvania historian Alan Charles Kors, said the move is the first step in a campaign "to end the nightmare of campus censorship." Kors founded FIRE in 1999 with Boston civil rights attorney Harvey A. Silverglate.
		Kors called such codes "a moral, educational, and legal scandal in American higher education.
		Kors said: "Of course, the expression most in need of protection is precisely 'provocative' dissent from widely held views, even if those provoked see that as 'demeaning.'"
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20030423-050845-1470r (916 words)

	What's New \| Foundation for Economic Education
		Alan Charles Kors is nationally recognized as one of the foremost defenders of free speech, individual liberty, right of conscience, legal equality, and academic freedom on American campuses.
		In 1993, he defended a student, Eden Jacobowitz, in the infamous “water buffalo case,” which led to the writing of The Shadow University (with Harvey A. Silverglate) and to the founding of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) in 1999.
		Alan Kors is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the chairman of FIRE.
	www.fee.org /events/detail.asp?id=6241 (132 words)

	Academia's swindle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kors is a veteran of many battles in which old-style academics like him pitched their tents against entrenched ideologues who have tried to turn universities into domains that teach their politics only.
		Kors confided that the Achilles heel of the speech-code advocates is "that they can't defend in public what they do in private."
		That said, Kors noted that for every professor in trouble for criticizing U. policy from the left, there were five or 10 students in hot water for supporting the war on terrorism.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/13/ED30977.DTL (585 words)

	FIRE - Alan Charles Kors
		Alan Charles Kors (Ph.D., Harvard University) teaches European intellectual history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is professor of history and holds the George H. Walker Endowed Term Chair.
		In 1993, he defended Eden Jacobowitz in the infamous “water buffalo case,” which led to the writing of The Shadow University (1998) and to the founding of FIRE, both with Harvey Silverglate.
		Kors has published extensively on the conceptual revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, and produced three taped series on the period for The Teaching Company.
	www.thefire.org /index.php/person/3438.html (295 words)

	Stanley Kurtz on Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on National Review Online
		But it delights me to imagine Kors and his friends sitting across the table from actual deans and provosts throughout the land — reading them the riot act in exactly this way.
		Seventy-five percent of FIRE's cases are successfully resolved without any publicity, chiefly because Kors and company privately let the administrators in question know what true liberty means — and promise that the world will hear about it if classic liberal principle is trampled.
		In its first big case, FIRE went to the defense of a Christian student group at Tufts University which had refused to promote a member with an unorthodox view of scripture and sexuality.
	www.nationalreview.com /kurtz/kurtz091902.asp (1625 words)

	12/7/04, George Walker Endowed Term Professor of History - Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 14
		Alan Charles Kors, professor of history, has been named the inaugural George H. Walker Endowed Term Professor of History, SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston has announced.
		In addition to being recognized with the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback and the Ira Abrams Memorial Distinguished Teaching Awards, he also received a faculty award from the Friars Senior Society.
		In 1998, Dr. Kors co-authored The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses with Harvey Silverglate.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/volumes/v51/n14/ak.html (314 words)

	The Globalisation Institute - Professor Alan Charles Kors
		He received a BA in history from Princeton University and an MA and PhD in European history from Harvard University.
		His co-authored book (with Harvey A. Silverglate) The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses was published by the Free Press in 1998.
		Professor Kors is the author of D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris (1976) and Atheism in France, 1650-1729, vol.
	www.globalisationinstitute.org /academicadvisorycouncil/kors.php (360 words)

	Letters: Aristotle as a Scientist (April 1998)
		This exchange follows the interview with Alan Charles Kors "The Philosophy of the Enlightenment"
		In an interview for the November 1997 issue of Navigator, Professor Alan Charles Kors is quoted as saying: "I believe, in fact, that the Enlightenment was correct that [Aristotle's] a priori commitment to a scheme of causal explanations — final causes, above all — made the modern project of objective inquiry impossible."
		For those interested in the evidence of his positive and pervasive influence during this period, I would be happy to provide copies of my own research.
	www.theobjectivistcenter.org /navigator/articles/nav+sdwake_aristotle-scientist.asp (843 words)

	The Institute for Humane Studies - Alan Charles Kors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alan Charles Kors is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Kors is editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press) and is on the board of editors of Eighteenth-Century Life.
		He has actively advocated academic freedom and was recently awarded the Englaticheff Award in Defense of Academic Freedom.
	www.theihs.org /people.php/75939.html (228 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Religious Cleansing on Campus by Michael Tremoglie
		Universities want to ban religious groups because their views are incompatible with university orthodoxy," said Alan Charles Kors, president of FIRE.
		It is an intolerant and intolerable outrage." Kors was quoted regarding the UNC case, ""In short, it is prohibited at this public university for a Christian organization to be Christian."
		Kors said of Jackson’s comments, "That is the voice of liberty and of a free people."
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5402 (634 words)

	The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silvergate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silvergate
		From Maine to California, at public and private universities alike, liberty and fairness are the first casualties as teachers and students find themselves in the dock, presumed guilty until proven innocent and often forbidden to cross-examine their accusers.
		The student at the center of the 1993 "Water Buffalo" case at the University of Pennsylvania, who was brought up on charges of racial harassment after calling a group of rowdy students "water buffalo" -- even though the term has no racial connotations.
	www.ashbrook.org /books/kors.html (563 words)

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