In Heim v. Daniel, the Second Circuit court of appeals joins the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth circuits in acknowledging special value of academic speech
University of Louisville investigated a professor and issued him a verbal warning for criticizing administration officials’ approach to judging the Grawemeyer Music Award.
A group of faculty in the California State University system is working to promote free speech and academic freedom throughout the CSU system, and it is starting the school year off right with two new initiatives.
The Israeli government and anti-Semitism advocacy groups had urged removal of the allegedly antisemitic book from a professor’s course reading list — the latest in a national trend of threats to academic freedom.
Presidents from more than a dozen colleges and universities announced the formation of an advocacy campaign, Campus Call for Free Expression, that will promote free expression in higher education and on college campuses.
The California Community Colleges’ regulations force professors within the California Community College system to espouse controversial views about “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The Ohio legislature is considering a bill that threatens academic freedom with provisions that constitute curricular bans as well as language that would diminish academic freedom and First Amendment protections.
The troubling decision says faculty speech about institutional governance doesn’t get First Amendment protection, giving public universities broad power to oust faculty whistleblowers, dissenters.