Filter & Sort
Title IX as a Threat to Academic Freedom
AAUP attempts to reframe debate and put focus on due process and the importance of faculty freedom of speech.
Berkeley Hires; Speaker Boycott Ends
After university agrees to extend offers to subcontracted workers, largest employee union at UC Berkeley retracts call for speakers to boycott the campus.
'The Bell Curve,' Still Incendiary
The book and a planned appearance at Virginia Tech by one of its authors set off a debate over race, academic freedom and the role of a university president.
Defining Intolerance
U of California, which has seen divisive debates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on its campuses, abandoned draft policy last year amid First Amendment concerns. The university is trying again.
'Fake' Tenure?
U of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approves new tenure policies, rejecting a series of proposals that professors said would have protected some of their rights.
Changing Course on Anti-Semitic Remarks?
Oberlin releases statements that seem to contradict its earlier position defending the right of a controversial professor, Joy Karega, to say what she wants on social media.
Opinion
The Academy in Peril?
If politicians are allowed to dictate who works in our colleges and universities, and thus whose voices get heard when we discuss the world and its inhabitants, we can't expect the results to be positive, argues William Bradley.
Unacademic Freedom?
Academic freedom is supposed to protect unpopular views. A case involving an Oberlin professor who claimed that ISIS is really the CIA and Mossad asks whether that freedom extends to falsehoods.