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West Virginia University wants to eliminate tenure and restrict faculty speech. Not on our watch.

November 16, 2022

If West Virginia University gets its way, faculty there will soon lose tenure’s core procedural protections against inappropriate dismissal.

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s cagey responses about ‘diversity action plans’ prompt FIRE to file public records request

November 11, 2022

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.

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Three ‘problematic’ professors excluded from selection for University of Arizona’s academic freedom committee

November 10, 2022

Three Arizona professors were excluded from the ballot to become members of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure based on rumors.

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Emporia State guts tenure protections, fires 33 professors including one who publicly criticized new policy 

November 2, 2022

Emporia State University adopted a Kansas Board of Regents policy granting itself authority to fire any university employee — including tenured faculty.

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Folding under pressure, University of California San Diego suspends professor for protected comments

November 1, 2022

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.

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‘The foundation of intellectual discovery’: The role of academic freedom in civil society

November 1, 2022

Academic freedom refers to the ability of educational institutions, professors, and other scholars to pursue knowledge without unreasonable interference from the government.

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FIRE asks NYU to reinstate chemistry professor whose firing caused furor and to ensure that adjuncts like him have academic freedom

October 27, 2022

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.

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Princeton prof talks administrative bloat, the role of faculty, and campus free expression

October 21, 2022

Princeton University professor John Londregan argues that more nonacademic administrators has severe implications for free expression and academic freedom.

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Federal court: FIRE can hold Collin College administrators personally and financially responsible for violating fired professor’s First Amendment rights

August 26, 2022

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.

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Federal appeals court affirms dismissal of student’s lawsuit against Arizona community college over quiz questions about Islamic terrorism

August 16, 2022

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.

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