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Campus Speech Codes Should Be Abolished (December 13, 2023)
The Chancellor of Berkeley Weighs In (December 17, 2023)
The Future of Academic Freedom (January 27, 2024)
Iowa Board of Regents seek student feedback on free speech in survey (January 31, 2024)
Israel-Hamas war is testing the limits of free speech at some North Texas colleges (December 19, 2023)
I Teach a Class on Free Speech. My Students Can Show Us the Way Forward.(December 15, 2023)
Judge dismisses Florida pro-Palestinian student groups’ free speech lawsuits against DeSantis (January 31, 2024)
Penn hearing board recommended sanctions against Amy Wax in June, but her appeal means the process isn’t over (Feb. 20, 2024)
University presidents get schooled in free speech and antisemitism (December 15, 2023)
We’ve lost our way on campus. Here’s how we can find our way back (december 10, 2024)
The Fight Over Academic Freedom (Feb. 20, 2024)
American University's Un-American Policies on Student Free Speech (February 26, 2024)
College Dorm Decorations Become a Front in the Campus Free Speech Wars (March 2, 2024)
GOP bill would let college students challenge grades based on ‘political bias’ of professors (March 7, 2024)
A so-called activist Supreme Court shrugs at extreme campus speech rules (March 8, 2024)
SAC president forced out after Palestine ‘teach-in’ controversy (San Antonio Express News, March 18, 2024))
BYU now requires incoming students to read controversial 'musket fire' speech (NBC news, March 18, 2024)
Gov. Youngkin requests to review course syllabi at George Mason, Virginia Commonwealth universities (The VIrginian-Pilot, March 25, 2024)
Colleges are Supposed to Make Citizens (Banished, April 7, (2024)
USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (Forward, April 16, 2024)
Columbia Fails to Protect its Jewish Students (Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2024)
Columbia, Free Speech, and the Coddling of the American Right (New York Times, April 19, 2024
The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’ (The Atlantic, April 23, 2024)
UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student ((NBC News, May 3, 2024)
Harvard Will Refrain From Controversial Statements About Public Policy Issues (The Harvard Crimson, May 28m 2024)
San Jose State suspends professor over conduct during pro-Palestinian demonstrations (San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2024)
College of Staten Island suspends officer who told protester 'I support killing all you guys' (ABC News, May 24, 2024)
New College of Florida set to punish student protesters following boos at commencement (Herald Tribune, May 29, 2024)
A Final Graduation Requirement: Making Sense of Protest (New York Times, May 28, 2024)
U.C. Berkeley’s Leader, a Free Speech Champion, Has Advice for Today’s Students: Tone It Down (NY Times, JUne 6, 2024)
After publishing an article critical of Israel, Columbia Law Review's website is shut down by board (ABC News, June 24, 2024)
‘We’re Seeing Universities Following a Corporate Agenda to Get Favor With Donors’: CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, May 28, 2024)
Nevada regents vote to define antisemitism, cite Jewish students’ concerns (Las Vegas Review Journal, June 10, 2024)
Judge orders University of California workers to pause strike over Israel-Hamas war (The Hill, June 8, 2024)
Occidental trustees vote against divesting from Israel-linked companies (LA Times, June 13, 2024)
Harvard Goes Only Halfway Toward Institutional Neutrality (WSJ, June 12, 2024)
A Palestinian Professor Spoke Out Against the Gaza War. Israel Detained Her. (NY Times, June 12, 2024)
3 Columbia Deans Placed on Leave Over Conduct at Antisemitism Panel (NY Times, June 23, 2024)
In San Francisco, Doctors Feud Over ‘Do No Harm’ When It Comes to War Protests (NY Times, Junme 24, 2024)
Tenured LSU Shreveport professor fired for ‘disruptive behavior’ (Louisiana Illuminator, June 25, 2024)
It’s Time for Progressives to Recommit to Academic Freedom (The Nation, June 25, 2024)
What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech Campus protests against speakers like Richard Spencer are not censorship. They help secure the basic rights of others. (NY Times, April 24, 2017)
Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook University In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom (NY Times, July 2, 2024)
Free Speech and the Academy: An Interview with Hollis Robbins (Neo Narrative, March 22, 2023)
University of Utah anti-racism policy forces faculty to ‘eradicate’ words from teaching, curriculum The policy clearly violates their First Amendment rights. (The FIre, March 24, 2023)
UC regents ban views on Israel, other political opinion from university homepages (LA Times, July 17, 2024)
Bellarmine suspends employee over social media post about attempted Trump assassination (July 15, 2024)
Three Florida faculty unions file ‘academic freedom’ lawsuit (Tampa Bay Times)
Liberal Thought Returns to Campus The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill opens its new school to teach students how to disagree well. (Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2024)
Zero tolerance at UC campuses in new order banning encampments, masking, blocking paths (Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2024)
IU, Purdue are telling a court their faculty have no First Amendment rights in the classroom (Medium, August 9, 2024)
Opinion | Unmask college protesters. But when is anonymity okay? (The Washington Post, August 28, 2024)
UofSC criticized for allowing controversial Kamala Harris roast (WACH Fox57, August 23, 2024)
NYC school council member who was bounced after transgender opposition is reinstated by court (Gothamist, September 4, 2024)
30 Harvard professors hold ‘study-in’ protest at library – NBC Boston (NBC Boston, October 19, 2024)
Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like (New York Times, November 21, 2024)
- A Trump Voter Walks Into My Office (Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2024)
To Dial Down Campus Tensions, Colleges Teach the Art of Conversation (NY Times, December 14, 2024)
Speak Up or Shut Up? A Conversation about the State of Campus Free Expression Today | James Madison Program (November 11, 2024)
Student Views
The Politics of College Choice (March 14, 2024; Inside Higher Ed)
Court Order Sides With Conservative Students at Clovis Community College (Inside Higher Education, August 5, 2025)
Students Increasingly Uncomfortable with Sharing Their Political Opinions (Inside Higher Education, April 25, 2024
Liberal Thought Returns to Campus The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill opens its new school to teach students how to disagree well. (Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2024)
Report reveals ongoing tensions over student speech (Inside Higher Education, August 26, 2024)
U of Alabama requires Black and LGBTQ+ groups to relocate (Inside Higher Education, August 26, 2024)
Cass Sunstein Wants to Help Universities Navigate Free Speech Conflicts (Inside Higher Education, Septermber 3, 2024)
Only the First Amendment Can Protect Students, Campuses and Speech (NY Times, September 7, 2024)
Court revives suit from student targeted for "sexual" posts (Inside Higher Education, September 29, 2024)
Group says four Cornell students banned from campus for three years (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 18, 2024)
Disruptive Behavior | Butler University
Should a Student Reporter Face Prosecution for Embedding with Protesters? (Columbia Journalism Review, December 4, 2024)
University statement on Stanford Daily students arrested on June 5 | Stanford Report (June 10, 3024)
Coalition Calls on DA to Decline Charges Against Stanford Student Journalist (Girst Amendment Coalition, June 20, 2024)
Historians Condemn Israel’s ‘Scholasticide.’ The Question Is Why (NYTimes, January 9, 2025)
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review (The Washington Post, January 21, 2025)
Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure (Washington Post, June 14, 2024)
Harvard Adopts a Definition of Antisemitism for Discipline Cases (New York Times, January 22, 2025)
Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left (New York Times, January 24, 2025)
Staff & Free Speech
University of Michigan police officer’s suspension violated First Amendment, jury finds (Michigan Live, May 28, 2024)
Israel, Palestine & the Encampments
For college faculty, supporting protesters is a new job — and risk (Washington Post, May 8, 2024)
Why Encampments Scare College Presidents (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 26, 2024)
Protect the Student Protestors. Don’t Idealize Them (Chronicle of Higher Education, (April 29, 2024)
I’m a Professor. I Never Expected to Be Arrested (Chronicle of Higher Education, April, 29, 2024)
Columbia University Cancels Main Commencement Ceremony After Protests ( Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2024)
Yes, Students Can Have a Reasoned Debate About Israel-Hamas (May 10, 2024)
Protest and Civil Disobedience Are Two Different Things (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 23, 2024)
Activist Professors at Columbia and Barnard Are Botching Free Speech (Chronicle of Higher Education (April 2, 2024)
Why Students Must Shout to Be Heard (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 24, 2024)
Who’s behind the pro-Palestinian protests on Texas college campuses? (May 15, 2024)
UC Berkeley to consider divestment from weapons as pro-Palestinian protesters remove encampment
Union Will Strike at U. of California at Santa Cruz Over Protest Response and Divestment Demand (Chronicle, May 16, 2024)
As Student Protests Roil Campuses, One College Touts Its ‘Quieter Atmosphere’ (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 2024)
Campus Protests Conversation (Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, May 13, 2024)
AAUP Presents The Campus Protests: A View from the Ground
In Defense of the Right to Free Speech and Peaceful Protest on University Campuses (AAUP, April 28, 2024)
At Emory, Protesters Face Gas and Police Force After Setting Up Encampment (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 25, 2024)
The Palestinian Exception to Academic Freedom Must Go (April 24, 2024)
City College students form 3rd major campus encampment to demand divestment from Israel (April 25, 2024)
Protests Swell on College Campuses (Brian Lehrer Show, April 23, 2024)
At U.C.L.A., Police Arrest More Than 20 Pro-Palestinian Protesters (NY Times, June 11, 2024)
Cal State L.A. encampment is shut down days after takeover of building with administrators inside (LA TImes, June 17, 2024)
Yes, the Encampment at Your College Could Help Trigger a Federal Investigation (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7, 2024)
Are Students Who Protested Losing Out on Job Opportunities? (Inside Higher Education, June 17, 2024)
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students walk out in protest at Stanford University graduation (LA Times, June 16, 2024)
After 'significant' vandalism overnight, Cal State L.A. president says encampment must end (LA Times, June 12, 2024)
The Columbia Protests Made the Same Mistake the Civil Rights Movement Did (NY Times, May 3, 2024)
Criminal trespassing charges dropped against 79 arrested in UT pro-Palestinian protest (Austin American Statesman, June 26, 2024)
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Stuck in Disciplinary and Legal Limbo (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 5, 2024)
Indiana U board doubles down on protest restrictions (Inside Higher Education, July 30, 2024)
A TV Show Set Up a Fake Campus Protest. Then Real Protesters Arrived. (The New York Times, July 24, 2024)
Campus Protests Led to More Than 3,100 Arrests, but Many Charges Have Been Dropped (NY Times, July 21, 2024)
UC unveils steep cost of handling campus protests: $29 million, with most for policing (Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2024)
‘Manipulative and Intimidating’: Northwestern U. Police Charge 3 Faculty and Staff Over Pro-Palestinian Protest (Chronicle of Higher Educartion, Jully 18, 2024)
Bridging the Campus Divide With ‘Dangerous Ideas’ and AI Debate Moderators (Inside Higher Education, July 16, 2024)
Columbia’s president denounced her in Congress. Firing next (inside Higher Education, July 12, 20224)
A Wall Street Law Firm Wants to Define Consequences of Israel Protests (NY Times, July 8, 2024)
UWM suspends five student groups over “intimidating language” directed at Jewish organizations (620WtMJ, August 2, 2024)
UWM suspends five student groups over “intimidating language” directed at Jewish organizations (620WTMJ, August 2, 2024)
Columbia President Minouche Shafik Resigns Unexpectedly (Inside Higher Education, August 5, 2024)
Campus Protests Are Coming Back. Students and Administrators Are Digging In. (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 2024)
The Idea Fueling the Student Protest Movement: Are Colleges Facing -- And Facilitating -- An Intellectual Crisis? (Chronicle off Higher Education, August 15, 2024)
How universities are preparing for fall protests (Inside Higher Education, August 16, 2024)
An Awkward False Neutrality (Inside Higher Education, August 24, 2024)
Most Columbia students who protested still in "good standing" (Inside Higher Education, August 20, 2024)
Colleges Face Growing Demands to Step Up Enforcement on Student Protesters Who Cross a Line (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 19, 2021)
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Pomona convocation (Inside Higher Education, August 29, 2024)
Four arrested at University of Michigan Demonstration (Inside Higher Education, August 29, 2024)
San Francisco State May Be the First University to Endorse Some Divestment After Gaza Protests (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 29, 2024)
Divest or We Will Defund: Pro- Palestinian Student Government Makes Good on Its Promise (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 26, 2024)
U of Miami Professor Apologizes for Wearing Palestine Sash (Inside Higher Education, August 27, 2024)
Northwestern medical school scrapes images of Arab students in keffiyehs (USA Today, August 26, 2024)
Academic Boycotts Hurt Dissidents Most (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 27, 2024)
New Training and Tougher Rules: How Colleges Are Trying to Tame Gaza Protests (New York Times, August, 24, 2024)
Divestment Protests Won’t Succeed: Colleges are the Wrong Targets. Students Should Direct Their Efforts Elsewhere (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 3, 2024)
The University of Michigan’s Assault on Truth: College Leaders Crack Down on Protests and Lie about It (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 3, 2024)
I’m a College President, and I Hope My Campus Is Even More Political This Year (NY Times, September 2, 2024)
Voices of Student Success: Addressing Student Protests With a First-Year Seminar (Inside Higher Education, September 4, 2024)
Student protesters sue over suspensions (Inside Higher Education, August 23, 2024)
We Looked at Dozens of Colleges’ New Protest Policies. Here’s What We Found. (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 12, 2024)
Scholarly Associations Aren’t Entitled to Their Opinions (Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2024)
Professors at the Protest (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 17, 2024)
Mideast War, Midwest Crisis Indiana U. made a series of unpopular decisions. Then it called the police on protesters (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 14, 2024)
‘These Terms Are Just Absurd’: How One University Disciplined Professors Accused of Assisting an Encampment (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 30, 2024)
As an 8-Day Protest Shut Down a University, Administrators and Faculty Sparred Over What to Do (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 9, 2024)
Cooley's INDEPENDENT POST-ACTION REVIEW APRIL 2024 INDIANA UNIVERSITY ENCAMPMENT PROTESTS REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS (Indiana University News, July 24, 2024)
Pro-Palestinian Activists Shut Down a Campus Job Fair. One Student's Punishment Could Get Him Deported. (Chronicle of Higher Education, September, 5, 2024)
The New Encampment Culture (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2, 2024)
Maryland Governor Says Students’ ‘Vigil for Gaza’ is ‘Inappropriate’ (Inside Higher Education, October 3, 2024)
New Rules and Familiar Challenges as Antiwar Protesters Return to Campuses: 'The Stakes Are Extraordinarily High' (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 5, 2024)
Pro-Palestinian Group at Columbia Now Backs ‘Armed Resistance’ by Hamas (NY Times, October 20, 2024)
Brown Will Not Divest (Inside Higher Education, October 19, 2910)
Princeton Praised a Professor for Winning a MacArthur. What About Its Probe Into Her Pro-Palestine Support? – Mother Jones (November 4, 2024)
Pro-Palestinian Group Is Relentless in Its Criticism of Israel, and It Isn’t Backing Down (NY Times, October 5, 2024)
A Student Group’s Endorsement of Violence Splits Columbia’s Faculty (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 14, 2024)
A Student Group’s Endorsement of Violence Splits Columbia’s Faculty (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 14, 2024)
College Officials Must Condemn On-Campus Support for Hamas Violence (New York Times, October 20, 2024)
Did Title VI Guidance to Colleges Suppress Protesters’ First Amendment Rights? A Lawsuit Seeks Answers (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 12, 2024)
U. of Michigan Student Government Impeaches President, VP for ‘Inciting Violence’ Over Student-Fee Dispute (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 13, 2024)
When Campus Activists Thrill to Violence (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 30, 2024)
George Mason University bans two pro-Palestinian activists (The Washington Post, December 9, 2024)
Pro-Palestine zine cannot be distributed on campus, MIT says (Insider Higher Education, December 3, 2024)
NYU students and professors cuffed in pro-Palestine protest (AM New York, December 14, 2024)
Why the American Historical Association Rejected a Resolution on Gaza (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 17, 2025)
U of Rochester Students Expelled Over ‘Wanted’ Posters (Inside Higher Education, January 23, 3025)
Higher Education Press
The AAUP Condemns Escalating Assault on Academic Freedom at Penn (December 19, 2023)
American University Bans Indoor Protests (February 1, 2024)
Calls for a Moral Vision The war in Gaza and higher ed’s role in fostering a sense of humanity (Fall 2023)
From the Ivies to UC, Campus Speech Should Be Free (December 15, 2023)
Letter to the chancellor of CUNY and the interim president of Hunter College regarding their failure to defend free speech and academic freedom (December 8, 2023)
Majority of Colleges Surveyed Have Restrictive Speech Policies, Report Says
Should Departments Make Political Statements? (January 26, 2024)
War in Gaza Fuels Faculty Free Speech Battles (December 18, 2023)
Anti-Muslim racism fuels academic freedom attacks (Feb. 20, 2024)
Catholic University fires instructor over speaker's comments
College Reinstates Professor Who Allegedly Preached in Class
What Is ‘Indoctrination,’ Anyway? (February 20, 2024)
Whom Would Jesus Cancel? (February 23, 2024)
PEN America Calls on Catholic U to Reverse Firing (February 23, 2024)
Academic Freedom Battles Roil Indiana University (February 26, 2024)
Professors Evacuated, Put on Leave in Hectic Pro-Palestine Protest (February 27, 2024))
Private Colleges Hope New Speech Policies Will Keep the Peace
As Alabama Republicans Target DEI, They Propose ‘Gag Order’ on Professors (March 1, 2024)
U of Houston Cancels Art Event for Sculpture Deemed ‘Satanic’ (March 6, 2024)
Texas Tech Professor on Leave for ‘Hateful, Antisemitic’ Comments (March 6, 2024)
‘New Communism’ Group Disrupts Yale Professor’s Class (March 6, 2024)
‘New Communism’ Group Disrupts Yale Professor’s Class (March 6, 2024)
Teaching Behind Enemy Lines (March 6, 2024)
Columbia Has Changed Its Protest Policy—Again (March 7, 2024)
Jewish, Muslim Students Fear Their Views Put Them in Danger (March 8, 2024
The Hate-Speech Problem in Campus Protest (March 10, 2024)
The New Campus Fanaticism (March 12, 2024)
Low Grade? Arizona Bill Would Let Students Allege ‘Political Bias’ (March 12, 2024)
Disembroiling HOT Moments in the Classroom (March 14, 2024; Inside Higher Ed;
What the Champions of Neutrality Get Wrong (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 2024)
Why Do Some Campus Events About the War in Gaza Succeed While Others Spark Controversy? (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 25, 2024)
Colleges Use His Antisemitism Definition to Censor. He Calls It a ‘Travesty.’ (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2024)
Turmoil in the Academic Melting Pot (Inside Higher Education, March 29, 2024)
Private Colleges Hope New Speech Policies Will Keep the Peace (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2, 2024)
Activist Professors at Columbia and Barnard Are Botching Free Speech (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2, 2024)
Boise State professor revealed as author of extremist website (Inside Higher Education, April 3, 2024)
Students Suspended After Storming Pomona President’s Office (inside Higher Education, April 8, 2025)
National Protest Day Planned Against ‘Attacks’ on Higher Ed (Inside Higher Education, April 13, 2024)
‘You Are in the Crosshairs’: Higher Ed Braces for Another Antisemitism Hearing (Inside Higher Education, April 16, 2024)
How Faculty Discipline Played a Key Role in the Congressional Hearing on Colu (Chroniclesof Higher Education, April 17, 2014)mbia U.
The House Republican Going After Universities on Antisemitism (New York Times, April 17,
The Review: The antisemitism hearing forgot about academic freedom (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 22, 2024)
As Pro-Palestinian Activists Turned Up the Heat, This College Hit a Boiling Point (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 12, 2024)
A Tenured Professor Was Removed From the Classroom Over a Pro-Palestine Essay (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2024)
How HBCUs are protesting the Israel-Hamas war (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28, 2024)
These Arab and Jewish Students Want to Talk About the War: But They Say Their Peers and Colleges Hold Them Back (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 22, 2024)
The Education Dept. Tried to Draw a Line Between Free Speech and Discrimination. It’s Still Blurry. (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28, 2024)
Report: Campus Protests Overwhelmingly Peaceful (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 13, 2024)
A Holocaust Scholar Called Israel's Actions in Gaza 'Genocide.' It Cost Him a Job Offer (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2024)
Community Groups Shouldn’t Dictate Academic Hiring (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 26, 2024)
Professor Fired for Attending Unite the Right Rally Sues (Inside Higher Education, June 17, 2024)
How Colleges Can Prepare for a Chaotic Fall (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 21, 2024)
Florida Argues It Could Stop Professors From Criticizing Governor (Inside Higher Education, June 21, 2024)
Better Speech Policies Start With Campus Buy-In (Inside Higher Education, June 21, 2024)
NYU Accused of Suppressing Protest at Abu Dhabi Campus (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 20, 2024)
Faculty Speech Must Have Limits (Harvard Crimson, , June 15, 2024)
OCR Chides Lafayette College for Dismissing Anti-Israel Posts as ‘Free Speech Issue’ (Inside Higher Education, June 24, 2024)
A History Instructor Complained About Parking Fees. It Cost Him His Job. (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 21, 2024)
Update here:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/he-lost-his-job-after-complaining-to-the-president-about-parking-now-hes-been-reinstated
Louisiana's 2 New Free-Expression Laws Target Colleges. They're Raising Lots of Questions. (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 21, 2024)
Lincoln University Cuts Ties With Alumni Association, Demands Audit (Inside Higher Education, June 25, 2024)
LSU fires tenured Shreveport professor, environment advocate (Inside Higher Education, June 27, 2024)
Managerialism as a Threat to Academic Freedom (Inside Higher Education, June 28, 2024)
Why Are There So Few Conservative Professors? (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 1, 2024)
Firing a Faculty Firebrand (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2024)
Holding the Line Hollis Robbins shares her takeaways from that academic freedom conference at Stanford.(Chronicle of Higher Education, November 27, 2022)
The Subtle Erosion of Academic Freedom (inside Higher Education, April 15, 2019)
Survey: Most professors comfortable teaching touchy topics (Inside Higher Ed, July 31, 2024)
Does academic freedom excuse posts on assassination attempt? (Inside Higher Education, July 24, 2024)
Colleges Created Task Forces to Address Reports of Antisemitism and Islamophobia. What Have They Done? (Chronicle of Higher Education July 17, 2024)
If we want free speech, we need to teach it (opinion) (Inside Higher Education, July 18, 2024)
AFT launches push for academic freedom, job security, access (Inside Higher Education, July 18, 2024)
Faculty Dissent on LGBTQ Issues Under Scrutiny at Calvin U (Inside Higher Education, August 1, 2024)
Faculty Dissent on LGBTQ Issues Under Scrutiny at Calvin U (Inside Higher Education, August 1, 2024)
St. Andrews rector stripped of roles over Gaza comments (Inside Higher Education, August 2, 2024)
Five UW Milwaukee clubs suspended for calling Jewish groups "extremist" (Inside Higher Education, August 2, 2024)
Why Howard U. Has Gone Mute on Kamala Harris, Its Famous Alum (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2, 2024)
Florida’s Public Universities Are Told to Review Courses for ‘Antisemitism or Anti-Israeli Bias (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 6, 2024)
Indiana Argues Professors Lack First Amendment Rights in Public Classrooms (Inside Higher Education, August 14, 2024)
Federal Judge Blasts UCLA for Allowing Encampment Protesters to Block Jewish Students (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 14, 2024)
Johns Hopkins announces ‘posture of restraint‘ on statements (Inside Higher Education, August 16, 2024)
New College of Florida Is Dumping Books—and Losing Professors (Inside Higher Education, August 20, 2024)
Has a ticking time bomb for academic freedom finally exploded? (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 11, 2023)
College Speech Policies Are a Mess — and a Liability (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 28, 2024)
UT system bans statements on political and social issues (Inside Higher Education, August 26, 2024)
Harvard professors protest protest restrictions—with chalk (Inside Higher Education, September 6, 2024)
Duke Divinity Crisis: The Documents Are Out Paul Griffiths' sin was to call DDS's planned anti-racism training a bureaucratic waste of time (American Conservative, May 7, 2017)
Why I Resigned From Duke (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 2017)
Free Speech Survey Signals Distrust and Disconnection (Inside Higher Education, September 9, 2024)
Penn Embraces Institutional Neutrality (Inside Higher Education, September 22, 2024)
How Anti-Zionism Captured the Campus Left (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 17, 2024)
The Palestine Exception’s Creeping Threat to Academic Freedom (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 17, 2024)
Professor allegedly fired for transgender views wins appeal (Inside Higher Education, September 17, 2024)
A University Proposed Banning Bake Sales and Weekend Protests. Here’s How People Reacted (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 19, 2024)
The end of the academy? (Inside Higher Education, September 19, 2024)
Penn State News Racks Removed Over Political Ads (Inside Higher Education, September 23, 2024)
Penn Professor Amy Wax Punished for ‘Derogatory’ Statements but Won’t Lose Job (Inside Higher Education, September 24, 2024)
Tenured Jewish Professor Says She’s Been Fired for Pro-Palestinian Speech (Inside Higher Education, September 28, 2024)
What Can $100 Million Do for Free Speech on Campus? (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 27, 2024)
How Free Speech Failed at Harvard and How to Rescue it(Chronicle of Higher Education, September 27, 2024)
The Political Capture of Academic Freedom (Chronicle of Higher Education, September 30, 2024)
Trustees Urged Students to Call This Faculty Leader a Racist, a Report Found. Now He's Suing. (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 1, 2024)
It’s the Anniversary of October 7. Will College Presidents Say Anything? (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2, 2024)
Princeton Touted a Professor's MacArthur Award While Also Investigating Her Pro-Palestinian Advocacy (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 3, 2024)
This Tenured Professor Says She Was Fired. Her Case Tests the Limits of Academic Freedom. (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2, 2024)
What’s Behind the Push for ‘Institutional Neutrality’? (Inside Higher Education, October 20, 2024
Kansas Professor on Leave After Viral Video Inside Higher Education, October 10, 2024)
Columbia Bars Vocal Pro-Israel Professor From Campus (NY Times, October 16, 2024)
How a Rejected Course on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Rattled a Department (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 16, 2024)
Do These Courses Contain Antisemitic Content? (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 2024)
Another Harvard Crackdown on Free Speech (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 22, 2024)
A Texas University Tells Professors Their Teaching and Research Will Be Under ‘Intense Scrutiny’ (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 13, 2024)
Many Faculty Say Academic Freedom Is Deteriorating. They’re Self-Censoring (Inside Higher Education, November 13, 2024)
Defending Academic Freedom Means Defending Amy Wax (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 29, 2024)
Academic Freedom With and Without Academic Responsibility
About That ‘Institutional Neutrality’ (Inside Higher Education, November 15, 2024)
Opinion | Neutrality Is Meant to Be Broken (Chronical of Higher Education, November 4, 2024)
FIRE, ACLU: Pa. Public Campuses Must Allow Election Speech (Inside Higher Education, November 4. 2024)
Why Did the U. of Florida Back Away From a Symposium on the War in Gaza at the Last Minute? (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 1, 2024)
What Is Behind FIRE’s Attacks on AAUP? (Inside Higher Education, November 18, 2024)
Louisiana Governor Calls on LSU to Punish Professor for Alleged Anti-Trump Speech (Inside Higher Education, November 27, 2024)
The Race to Pacify Protesters Is a new team of campus administrators protecting free speech or undermining it? (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 25, 2024)
The Campus in the Second Age of Trump (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 18, 2024)
We Asked for It The politicization of research, hiring, and teaching made professors sitting ducks (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 18, 2024)
Campus museum required waivers to view anti-fascist art (Inside Higher Education, December 9, 2024)
NIH nominee might base funding on campus academic freedom (Inside Higher Education, December 8 3024)
AHA convention attendees oppose "scholasticide" in Gaza (Inside Higher Education, January 6, 2025)
Florida's Nakedly Ideological Attack on Gen Ed (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2025)
Professors Ruined Gen Ed. Florida Is Fixing It. (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2025)
Institutional Neutrality Is a Copout Colleges must speak with their own true voices (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 7, 2025)
Watching their words: U.S. faculty say they're self-censoring (Inside Higher Education, January 9, 2025)
Academic freedom requires DEI; the AAUP gets it (opinion) (Inside Higher Education, January 9, 2025)
Many College Professors Say Their Academic Freedom Is In Decline, Study Finds (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 9, 2025)
Pro-Palestinian Columbia Professor Departs After Investigation (inside Higher Education, January 23, 2025)
Prof. says he was fired for email calling U.S. racist, fascist (Inside Higher Education, January 17, 2025)
No, Katherine Franke Was Not Fired (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 17, 2025)
Toward a Democratic Academic Freedom (Inside Higher Education, January 22, 2025)
Is Chapel Hill’s "civic life" school a conservative center? (Inside Higher Education, December 11, 2024)
Dartmouth Stakes Out a Policy of ‘Institutional Restraint’ Chronicle of Higher Education, December 11, 2024)
Why Higher Ed Is Taking a Step Back on Public Statements (Chronicle of Higher Education (February 8, 2024)
Republicans host campus free speech roundtable (Inside Higher Education, December 12, 2024)
Colleges were quiet after the Nov. election. Students don’t mind (Inside Higher Education, January 25, 2025)
IHRA antisemitism definition adopted at Harvard, prompts backlash (Inside Higher Education, January 28, 2025)
We Need New Ways to Protect Academic Freedom (Inside Higher Education, January 29, 2025)
How Florida Scrubbed 'Identity Politics' From Universities' General-Education Curricula (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 2025)
Trump Threatens to Deport International Students and Scholars Who Protested the War in Gaza (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 2025)
Déjà Vu: An LSU Law Professor Who Discussed Trump in Class Faces Blowback (Inside Higher Education, January 30, 2025)
Judge Reinstates Professor LSU Suspended After Trump Remarks (Inside Higher Education, January 31, 2025)
A Texas University Tells Professors Their Teaching and Research Will Be Under ‘Intense Scrutiny’ (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 13, 2024)
No, We’re Not in a New McCarthy Era (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 31, 2025)
The New Campus McCarthyism (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 31, 2025)
Professor Jodi Dean Controversy
Palestine Speaks for Everyone (Jodi Dean, April 9, 2024)
A Tenured Professor Was Removed From the Classroom Over a Pro-Palestine Essay (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 15, 2024)
Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Professor Suspended for Pro-Palestinian Blog Post (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
Revoke Professor Jodi Dean's suspension from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Change.org)
Hobart & William Smith politics professor to return to the classroom this fall...(Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog, July 22, 2024)
AAUP & Academic Boycotts
The AAUP Abandons Academic Freedom: Its Decision to Allow Academic Boycotts Betrays its Values (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2024)
The AAUP's Incoherent New Boycott Policy: The Organization Has Failed to See it Has Opened the Door to Chaos (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 16, 2024)
Why the AAUP Changed Its Stance on Academic Boycotts (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 16, 2024)
The AAUP Is Right. Supporting Boycotts Is Academic Freedom. (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 20, 2024)
In defense of the AAUP’s statement on boycotts (Inside Higher Education, August 29, 2024
What is at stake in an academic boycott? (opinion) (Inside Higher Education, September 6, 2024)
Academic boycotts cannot become the new normal (Inside Higher Education, September 12, 2024)
The AAUP Has Always Defended Academic Freedom. We Still Do. A new boycott policy doesn’t change that. (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 21, 2024)
New AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts: What It Really Means (AAUP Presents Podcast, September 20, 2024)
The Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel as a Defense of Academic Freedom | ACADEME BLOG (September 20, 2024)
Opinion | October 7 Is Not the Time For Institutional Neutrality (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 7, 2024)
Higher Ed Censorship Becoming More Discreet, PEN Reports ( Inside Higher Education, October 8, 2024)
GOP Lawmakers Pledge Accountability for Colleges on Oct. 7 Anniversary Inside Higher Education, October 8, 2024)
How Activist Speech Threatens Educational Values (Inside Higher Education, October 8 2024)
She Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished (NY Times, October 3, 2024)
The AAUP continues to back away from academic freedom (FIRE, October 11, 2024)
A Firestorm Against the AAUP (Chronicle of Higher Education, December 6, 2024)
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