Barbara Forrest, former board NOSHA board member and retired professor of philosophy at Southeastern University, will discuss “Why 'Academic Freedom' Is a Fraud: The Threat to Science Education,” at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, July 21 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. She will the Discovery Institute's promotion of its "academic freedom" model bill, a version of which became the Louisiana Science Education Act in 2008. She will also discuss the state of academic freedom today.

The New Orleans Secular Humanist Association is dedicated to raising the awareness of people of the Gulf Coast region to the ideals and values of secular humanism. The group is an affiliate of the Council for Secular Humanism, an associate of the American Humanist Association, an affiliate of American Atheists, and a member of the Atheist Alliance International.