FIRE commends The Ohio State University for not requiring applicants for either faculty or staff positions to submit diversity statements as a condition of hiring.
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.