The University of South Carolina recognized a campus chapter of the free speech group Uncensored America after FIRE wrote the university explaining that its initial denial appeared to impermissibly discriminate against the group’s viewpoint.
A professor at Florida’s Palm Beach Atlantic University said the school threatened to dismiss him if his course materials on racial justice are found to be “indoctrinating students.”
University responds to FIRE’s letter by insisting that no student is being “punished or investigated for reading a book,” instead citing concerns raised by other students about a social media photo.
After ignoring FIRE’s warnings about the threat to academic freedom, Indiana University School of Medicine now appears to require faculty to sign a politicized honor code as part of its training on mitigating bias.
Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention, but that’s what’s reportedly happening at Stanford University after a photo of a student reading Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, “Mein Kampf” circulated on campus last Friday.
After dismissing an instructor who showed medieval artwork of the Prophet Muhammad, Hamline backtracks, announces it’s committed to academic freedom in the face of legal action and a Board of Trustees investigation.
University stonewalls after student newspaper report reveals changing justifications for administration’s decision to restrict student promoting pro-choice march.
A police investigation into clearly protected expression following a bias report ends up being a nothingburger — and demonstrates how universities abuse bias reporting systems.