The School of Civic Life and Leadership at UNC Chapel Hill will features courses on history, literature, and political science, and will provide a space for students to “explore American civic values with the full freedom of expression."
University responds to FIRE’s letter by insisting that no student is being “punished or investigated for reading a book,” instead citing concerns raised by other students about a social media photo.
After ignoring FIRE’s warnings about the threat to academic freedom, Indiana University School of Medicine now appears to require faculty to sign a politicized honor code as part of its training on mitigating bias.
FIRE urges Florida lawmakers to remember that the First Amendment protects Americans of all political backgrounds by setting crucial limits on the power that politicians may wield within higher education.
When West Virginia University proposed changes to its faculty tenure, evaluation, and termination policy last fall, FIRE sounded the alarm that it would pose a serious threat to academic freedom.
MIT asserts that COVID-19 restrictions limiting the size of events and the presence of guests necessitated the decision to cancel a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2020.
Faculty at Hamline University voted Monday to ask President Fayneese Miller to step down after the president’s failure to support art history instructor Erika López Prater’s academic freedom rights.
