Jonathan Rieder spent his entire scholarly career researching racial conflict and the language we use to discuss race until Barnard College canceled one of his courses because of his approach to teaching about race.
After a four-year campaign by some faculty and administrators at Bakersfield College to rid the campus of professor Matthew Garrett and his inconvenient views ended last week with Garrett's termination.
On Wednesday, Harvard professors Steven Pinker and Bertha Madras announced in The Boston Globe the formation of a new faculty-led council to defend academic freedom at Harvard.
Stanford University almost had another big free speech controversy on its hands after administrators issued — then swiftly retracted — a ban on faculty sharing opinions about graduate student unions.
San Francisco State University is investigating a history professor for showing a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad while teaching a lesson on the history of the Islamic world after a student filed a complaint.
Cornell University has roundly “rejected” a Student Assembly resolution that would have required faculty to provide trigger warnings about classroom content that students may consider “traumatic.”
Wayne State University Professor Steven Shaviro used his personal Facebook account to criticize protestors who shout down speakers with purportedly bigoted views.
Cornell University’s student assembly adopted a resolution urging the administration to require faculty to provide content warnings prior to discussing potentially “triggering” material in the classroom.
Support for requiring DEI statements in job applications is associated with willingness to restrict speech and investigate colleagues for controversial expression.