FIRE criticized the University of Arizona for excluding three professors from the academic freedom committee ballot to be voted on by the faculty senate because they were considered “problematic.”
Emporia State adopted a policy allowing for broad discretion in firing tenured faculty, posing a serious threat to academic freedom, then immediately fired 33 faculty members, including one who publicly criticized the policy.
UC San Diego removed a chemistry professor from teaching after receiving a flood of complaints that the professor made racist comments about the Latino and Chicano communities.
In the fall of 2022, New York University terminated chemistry professor Maitland Jones Jr.’s contract without due process, following a student petition claiming his class was too difficult.
On September 7 2022, FIRE, in partnership with College Pulse, released the third annual College Free Speech Rankings, ranking the speech climates of 203 of America’s largest and most prestigious campuses.
Mount Holyoke College threatens free expression and compels speech by requiring student and faculty event hosts to recite the college’s views on historical land ownership as if they were the speaker’s own.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign threatens academic freedom by requiring faculty applying for promotion or tenure to submit statements on their DEI contributions.
