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Posttenure Review or a Plan to Undercut Tenure?
Right after U of Tennessee faculty members agreed on plan to toughen oversight of tenured professors, system proposed rules many say endanger academic freedom.
Woody Allen and Academic Freedom
UC San Diego Academic Senate rejects student-led push to cut a course on the filmmaker from the curriculum over sexual abuse allegations.
Email Crime and Punishment
How did a professor's stray email linking to an Inside Higher Ed article result in a letter of reprimand in his personnel file?
Ending a Course Over the N-Word
Princeton professor who was criticized for using the word in a class on hate speech cancels the course.
The Complications of Free Speech
Stanford, while previously adamant in promoting campus free expression, has struggled after posters on immigration were posted in a dormitory, challenging the consistency of the university’s policies.
The N-Word in the Classroom
Two professors on different campuses used the N-word last week. One was suspended and one was backed by his institution, demonstrating academe's continually fraught relationship with the term.
Controversial Event at Chicago (Yes, Chicago) Called Off
Description of conservative group's gathering said immigration has turned U.S. into "porcelain receptacle for other nations’ wretched refuse." Group said rhetoric was intentionally hyperbolic, and that students canceled the event.
The Death of College Free-Speech Zones
State legislatures are banning spaces colleges have carved out for free expression and protest that many consider restrictive.