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After Kirk’s Death, a Third of Students Say Posting ‘MAGA’ Is a Fireable Offense
The Israel-Palestine conflict remains the most taboo topic on college campuses, according to FIRE’s latest free speech report.
Opinion
Reading the Rules for Rule Makers, Part 1
Conflating academic freedom with perceived viewpoint diversity: such a fundamental category error as to imply bad faith.
U of Washington Pays Professor $600K, Allows ‘Parody Land Acknowledgment’
The University of Washington has agreed to pay a computer science teaching professor $600,000 for damages and legal fees and...
Arday Accuser Nathan Cofnas Says He Will Not Be Fired
Nathan Cofnas, the American postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium who accused the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday of...
State Senator Chalks Sidewalk at Ohio State, Protesting Ban
An Ohio state senator wrote a message in chalk Wednesday on Ohio State University’s campus, protesting the chalking ban the...
Trump Attack on Higher Ed ‘More Serious Than McCarthy Era’
A new book edited by former Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago legal scholar Geoffrey Stone discusses how university autonomy is threatened by the Trump administration and what it might take to save it.
Opinion
In Defense of Nathan Cofnas
We must not abandon academic freedom and punish anyone for being a harsh critic, even when there are tragic results.
Court Revives Lawsuit Filed by UK Prof Who Called for War on Israel
A federal appeals court has reactivated a professor’s free speech case against the University of Kentucky, court records show. On...