In the years since free speech and academic freedom experts Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman published their book Free Speech on Campus, which explained the importance of free speech at colleges ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Connecticut professors and leaders are concerned about a broad crackdown on free speech and academic freedom. The concerns go ...

The UNC Systems’ Committee on University Governance gave an initial nod Wednesday to a formal definition for academic freedom. “Academic freedom as a concept is included in our code and has been for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student studies outside the closed Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on August 18, ...

With their wealth, exclusivity and global clout, American universities are an easy target for populist resentment. For Americans frustrated by inequality and cultural alienation, there may be a ...

Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding. Maura Finkelstein at her home in Brooklyn in April.Credit...Stefan ...

A new UNC System definition of “academic freedom” received unanimous approval from the system’s Board of Governors university governance committee on Wednesday, impacting the state’s 17 public ...

Some Columbia professors have inserted a statement supporting academic freedom into their fall 2025 class syllabi in light of the University’s July 23 $221 million deal with President Donald Trump’s ...

At an event titled “Academic Freedom: What Remains?” hosted by Brown’s Democracy Project on Friday, four panelists discussed the current state of academic freedom at U.S. universities as they face ...

In 2022, Florida’s Stop WOKE Act sharply restricted classroom discussion of race and gender. In defending the law, state officials argued that there is no “purported right to academic freedom,” that ...

I recently posted to SSRN a draft of my new paper on "How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom." It is forthcoming in Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., Academic ...