Academic Freedom

A painting of Mary and Jesus, featuring a Jesus that resembles George Floyd, was stolen—twice—from the Catholic University of America. Many students don’t want it back on campus.

Professors seek a united faculty voice against legislative incursions into the curriculum with respect to the teaching of race.

Why isn’t the American higher education community, Terri Taylor asks, talking more—indeed, doing more—about this broad assault on academic freedom?

Why is Marian University axing its political science program and cutting its only tenured expert in U.S. government and politics?

Proposed reorganization at Texas A&M Qatar aimed at enhancing engineering education and research would reclassify liberal arts and science faculty in instruction- and service-focused roles, with no expectation or support for research.

Early in his career, administrators backed Donald Heller’s right to do politically sensitive scholarly work. He believes public university leaders must do the same for their faculty members now.

Scholar of pedophilia at Old Dominion University steps down amid controversy about comments on “minor-attracted persons.”

Truckee Meadows Community College says it won’t fire a professor accused of “insubordination,” after all.