Kansas enacts FIRE’s model Intellectual Freedom Protection Act, which prohibits mandatory statements on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and all other political litmus tests.
A newly reported document shows how a faculty committee analyzed Wax’s speech and teaching outside normal channels, conveniently allowing Penn to sidestep the academic freedom standards that protect controversial faculty expression.
Institutional Neutrality is the idea that colleges and universities should not, as institutions, take positions on social and political issues unless those issues “threaten the very mission of the university and its values of free inquiry.” Instead, these discussions should be left to students and faculty.
The University of Wisconsin System terminated long-time chancellor of the UW-La Crosse campus, Joe Gow, after discovering his involvement in the adult film industry.
UT Austin removed two graduate students from teaching assistant roles for providing campus mental health resources and discussing the mental health impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.