In September, FIRE wrote the University of Tennessee, Knoxville out of concern that its “diversity action plans” contain various proposals that threaten faculty First Amendment and academic freedom rights.
Emporia State University adopted a Kansas Board of Regents policy granting itself authority to fire any university employee — including tenured faculty.
FIRE warned UCSD that its suspension of a chemistry professor for in-class comments about the Latino and Chicano communities threatens the professor’s free speech rights.
Academic freedom refers to the ability of educational institutions, professors, and other scholars to pursue knowledge without unreasonable interference from the government.
By firing an adjunct professor after a few student complaints, NYU has seemingly ceded its promises of academic freedom and due process to a group of vocal undergraduates and their tuition-paying parents.
Princeton University professor John Londregan argues that more nonacademic administrators has severe implications for free expression and academic freedom.
Collin College administrators who fired a professor for her expression can be held personally and financially responsible for violating the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit involving a Scottsdale Community College student who asserted a constitutional right to be free from “disapproving” messages of his religion.