Kylee McLaughlin is claiming coaches engaged in "pressure and retaliation ... due to her political beliefs and her reactions to claims of racism," because of the coaches' "political or social justice beliefs, including support for critical race theory, opposition to President Trump, and a belief that white persons like plaintiff are privileged and racist."
Bright Sheng survived the Cultural Revolution. Or so he thought.
Criticism of a foreign country (or at least this foreign country) is now apparently forbidden by Emerson.
The Academic Freedom Alliance rebukes MIT for capitulating to the cancel mob.
What should you do if the mob tries to cancel you?
WBUR's On Point dedicated an hour to a discussion of the threat to academic freedom on college campuses
"New psychological research suggests that trigger warnings do not reduce negative reactions to disturbing material—and may even increase them."
A conversation with researchers at FIRE about the free speech climate on college campuses
So holds a federal district court.
Here's why that should terrify the rest of us, too.
University presidents have a responsibility to stand up for academic freedom
A conversation about fighting for free speech on campus and the trouble with legislative restrictions on it.
The university shut down a speech by noted economist Arthur Laffer because of organized heckling by “progressives.”
Despite the outraged response from his peers, student Isadore Johnson is still optimistic about the future of free speech at UConn.
The University of Iowa minimizes academic freedom so the unvaccinated can feel more comfortable
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit provides a useful reminder that qualified immunity is not just for police officers.
Sloppy legislation will lead to unintended consequences that damage academic freedom and good education
No, it’s not an attempt to monitor faculty and student views. It’s an attempt to make sure they’re allowed to express them.
A way of warning someone they might feel offended is itself offensive?
Why is straight reporting on educational reform measures so difficult.
A training session for graduate students urged them to prohibit students from discussing problematic views.
A new survey of students' free speech attitudes has both encouraging and worrying findings.
Regardless of what one thinks about CRT, legislators should not try to suppress ideas in academia
"Stanford Law School is strongly committed to free speech," says Dean Jenny S. Martinez, who wants to "ensure that something like this does not happen again."
The university investigated a law school student for mocking the Federalist Society, putting his diploma on hold until yesterday.
Does the First Amendment cover pronoun usage by university professors in the classroom?
Doing the wrong thing at an off-campus party could lead to on-campus consequences.
Conservatives should be fighting to open universities up, not to close them down
The surprising move raises concerns about academic freedom.
Rutgers Law School, the National Coalition on Censorship, and the Washington Post.
"All the times," "sometimes," or "rarely"? A prominent public university's training module requires faculty to give a particular answer.
A CNN story on the Rutgers law school controversy; the settlement agreement in the firing of Central Michigan University professor Tim Boudreau; and the views of Prof. Nadine Strossen, former President of the ACLU.
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