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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus with headshots of Associate Professor Ronit Freeman and Professor Nadia Yaqub
Faculty Academic Freedom

Campus Vote on Antisemitism Resolution Is Microcosm of National Debate

Someone called Oct. 7 “a beautiful day” at a University of North Carolina event. The Faculty Council then “indefinitely postponed” a resolution that would have condemned the statement.

Quick Takes

Doxing Truck Targets Boulder Faculty Members

Accuracy in Media, the group behind what it calls infamous mobile billboards and what others call doxing trucks, has now...
The text of two departmental statements on the Israel-Hamas war, one from UC Merced and one from UC San Diego.
Faculty Academic Freedom

Should Departments Make Political Statements?

The University of California is considering a policy to limit “personal or collective opinions” on department websites. Some say it violates academic freedom.

A photo illustration showing the headlines of the dueling news releases, including "92% of those familiar with VCU Health development deal want answers from the VCU Health System board" and "VCU statement about the Commonwealth Poll" and "VCU administration negates Virginians’ voices, maligns Wilder School Commonwealth Poll credibility in conflict of interest over failed VCU Health development deal."
Governance Executive Leadership

Virginia Commonwealth’s News Release Battle—With Itself

The university’s public affairs school published poll results criticizing university leaders, who then insulted the poll’s methodology. The school fired back.

Quick Takes

British Scholar Accused of Transphobia Wins Harassment Case

A British employment tribunal ruled Monday that the Open University didn’t properly protect one of its professors from “harassment” that...
From left, four witnesses who testified during a congressional hearing Dec. 5 on antisemitism: Claudine Gay, then president of Harvard University, Elizabeth Magill, then president of University of Pennsylvania, Pamela Nadell, a professor of history and Jewish studies at American University, and Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All four women sit at a long witness table as they listen to questioning.
Opinion
Views

The Humiliation of Higher Ed

We’ve entered a new stage in the culture wars, Jennifer Ruth writes.

By Jennifer Ruth

An open book, on fire, against a black background.
Opinion
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The Censors’ Next Target

An emerging legislative agenda extends beyond the individual classroom, Jeffrey Adam Sachs and Jeremy C. Young write.

By Jeffrey Adam Sachs and Jeremy C. Young

A photograph of seven demonstrators holding signs in a building as someone walks by. One sign says "Protect Pro-Palestine Activism" and another says "Stop Silencing Activism for Palestinians."
Faculty Academic Freedom

MLA Delegates Pass Motion Defending Pro-Palestine Speech

A leading opponent of the statement said it represented “an organizational pivot to anti-Zionism.”