Professor Cary Nelson (left), from the University of Illinois and former president of the national American Association of University Professors, spoke at Northern Michigan University on April 19th on “Academic Freedom in Times of Crisis: The Future of Collective Bargaining, Free Speech on Campus, and Prospects for Peace in the Middle East.”  The talk, organized by Associate Professor of English Gabe Brahm, was cosponsored by the NMU-AAUP .