Academic Freedom

A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national implications for academic freedom could be dire.

Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq argue that they do.

The university recorded Larry Chavis’s class without his consent for a professional review. Last week he was told his contract would not be renewed.

The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse was fired last year for making and distributing porn. Now the UW system is coming after his tenured faculty job.

Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.

Social scientists should resist the distortions of language that are (mis)shaping perceptions of the war in Gaza, Michel DeGraff writes.

In a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed, Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, discusses the impact of the pro-Palestinian protest movement on campus speech.