Joanne Jacobs is an education journalist and author who publishes JoanneJacobs.com. She joined the San Jose Mercury News in 1978, worked as an editorial writer and columnist, and left in 2001 to write independently. Her book Our School follows teachers building a charter school. She has also contributed to Education Next and holds a bachelor's degree in English and creative writing from Stanford University.
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Role at the time: Education journalist and blogger
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Statement summary
Jacobs criticizes the contradiction between CODA's free-speech purpose and its condemnation of the essay and cancellation of the forum. She also summarizes other writers' accounts. Those quoted writers' views are separate from her own assessment.
Columbia Open Discourse Alliance canceled a press-freedom panel after the Sundial published its Cornell 7 essay. CODA cited survivors' participation and safety. Critics challenged the cancellation; faculty advisers gave qualified assessments of that decision.
