Academic Freedom

Academics fear global reach of new Singaporean legislation could result in censorship of international academic journals.

Does movement against DePaul scholar -- focused on his tone and rhetoric -- violate academic freedom?

College regularly criticized over aborted talk in 2017 again fails to let a speaker talk. Campus was unsettled over chemistry exam question on how to make gas used by Nazis. Middlebury is among several colleges where recent talks have been disrupted.

Concordia U's Liberal Arts College, in Canada, wanted conservative scholar Harvey Mansfield to speak at an alumni gala -- until it didn't. But revoking Mansfield's invite didn't settle an internal debate.

Scholars say they thought a journal was run on Western standards of free expression, but they found Chinese government control instead.

Students and others demand her dismissal because of statements on Me Too and on transgender people.

President Trump’s recent executive order requiring that colleges protect free speech takes attention away from the three stronger forces weakening academic freedom, Johann N. Neem argues.

After University of Colorado system announces finalist as president, critics note antigay votes when he was in Congress and controversies as leader of University of North Dakota.