University of Wisconsin–Madison deletes students’ video amid criticism from state senator
It’s not just Washington state legislators calling for unconstitutional restrictions on student speech.
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Category: Newsdesk, Top Story Schools: University of Wisconsin – Madison
Washington state legislators call for censorship of student organization
Civil libertarians have come to expect that in the wake of a tragedy, some will call for the curtailment of freedoms that they perceive to have led to that tragedy.
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Category: Newsdesk, Top Story Schools: Washington State University
New campus sexual assault bill introduced in Congress
Last week, Senator Tim Kaine and Representative Susan Davis introduced the “Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act” in their respective houses of Congress.
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Dear Colleague: It’s over! Education Department rescinds controversial 2011 letter
Six years of federal Title IX policy that stripped college students of important due process protections and sowed confusion among administrators is finally over.
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Cases: U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights: Federal Lawsuit Challenges April 4, 2011, “Dear Colleague” Letter
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights April 4, 2011, Guidance Letter Reduces Due Process Protections
Arizona appellate court reverses forced disclosure of professors’ academic records
The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision ordering the University of Arizona to disclose the private academic records of two climate scientists.
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Category: Newsdesk, Top Story Schools: University of Arizona
So to Speak podcast: The British free speech invasion
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we catch up with spiked editors Tom Slater and Ella Whelan in New Jersey to chat about the tour, which kicks off next week in Washington, D.C.
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BREAKING: Laura Kipnis’ second ‘Title IX inquisition’
Today, Jeannie Suk Gersen reports for The New Yorker that Kipnis was the subject of yet another Northwestern Title IX investigation earlier this year — this time for writing “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus,”
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Category: Newsdesk, Top Story Schools: Northwestern University
Jewish author makes case for befriending neo-Nazis
Forward columnist Bethany Mandel asserts that the answer to bigotry is not censorship, but respectful and constructive dialogue with the bigoted.
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FIRE Student Network launches campus activism toolkit: ‘Speak Truth to Power’
The FIRE Student Network is thrilled to announce the launch of its first-ever activism on campus toolkit!
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Chemerinsky and Gillman create free speech checklist for college administrators
Last week, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman—the dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, respectively—issued a short free speech checklist for college administrators.
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Category: Newsdesk, Top Story Schools: University of California, Irvine University of California, Berkeley
