State Department Revokes Visas of Professor's Family Members

In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Jonathan Knight, director of the AAUP's program in academic freedom and tenure, protested the State Department's extraordinary decision announced earlier this week to revoke the visas of the wife and children of Professor Adam Habib, a citizen of South Africa, who last October was denied entry into the United States. If left uncorrected, Knight stated, these decisions "will take their toll on the willingness of those in the academic community abroad to visit with their counteparts in this country and indeed on the reputation of our country as an advocate of the free search for knowledge." (1/18)