A Shaw University department head was fired last month in connection with an anonymous letter critical of university officials, and she says her dismissal was a free-speech issue.
One week after the Harvard Business School administration threatened its student newspaper editor with sanctions over a "deeply hurtful" comment in a cartoon, the Law School is confronted with its own free speech conundrum.
Why the school's administration yielded to the pressure to punish two senior professors charged with racism instead of standing by them remains unexplained.
The University of Georgia has unequivocally affirmed the free speech rights of its students and apologized for an admin who ruled protected expression was prohibited at this public university.
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University of South Florida has abandoned its claim that negative reactions to Professor Sami Al-Arian's otherwise protected speech constituted appropriate grounds to fire him.
