Stanford faculty follows Harvard and Syracuse, adopts institutional neutrality statement

Stanford’s faculty senate voted to reaffirm student and faculty speech rights and proposed the university remain neutral on political issues.

MIT stops using DEI statements in faculty hiring

Other universities should follow suit.

As free speech controversies mount, Indiana University faculty pitch vote of no confidence in university leadership

IU’s postponement of an event featuring Hamas critic Mosab Hassan Yousef is the latest in a long line of recent free speech issues at the university.

Are younger faculty really more tolerant of unpopular opinions than older faculty?

Are younger faculty really more supportive of free speech on campus than their older peers?

Amy Wax hearing report confirms fears over erosion of academic freedom at Penn

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.

Big win for students, faculty as Furman University adopts free speech statement

Furman University joined more than 100 other colleges and universities that have codified the expressive rights of their campus communities into official school policy.

Speech codes subvert higher ed’s core purpose. Here’s how to fix them.

The impulse to censor instead of debate, disagree, and craft arguments should not be the lasting legacy of a college education.

Cornell falls short with new expression policy and guidance on faculty political speech

Cornell’s ‘Year of Free Expression’ turns out to be anything but.

Open letter to America’s college trustees: Politicized institutional statements threaten campus discourse. You can fix it.

Three free speech organizations have joined together to urge trustees and regents to advocate for institutional neutrality at their universities.

Johns Hopkins University investigates professor for anti-Palestinian commentary