Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members:

The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by further opening our public universities and colleges to bad-faith critique and extremist threats.

Peter Hans and UNC System administrators plan to follow in the footsteps of Florida, Texas, and Georgia by creating a single, searchable repository of all university and college syllabi. This move would endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry on our campuses.

The goal of the proposed syllabi repository is to witch hunt and punish academics for teaching in ways the current administration is ideologically opposed to. Do not let anyone fool you into thinking these actions are about the legitimate pursuits of truth, transparency, the advancement of knowledge, and effective teaching practices.

Please send an email to President Hans demanding that the UNC System protect academic freedom, our faculty, and our communities by abandoning this reckless plan.