The administrator, at Texas A & M University Texarkana, alleges he was pushed out because of his race, and because he had declined to discipline a student who "had used the word 'Nigga' in [a classmate's] presence while on a trip to the mall."
Harvard should pick someone with academic integrity as its next president.
An open letter released today from the AFA, HxA, and FIRE
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My new article on the First Amendment and controversial faculty speech
given that the University rejected the Chancellor of the Board of Governors' call for the SJP chapter to be deactivated.
Universities should not be in the political activism business
An excellent piece in the N.Y. Times Magazine by Prof. Stephen Carter (Yale Law).
“The safest course of action in terms of a possible violation of the NCO would be to refrain from writing or to be interviewed for articles that mention the name of the student with whom you have an NCO (or to retract them if that’s possible).”
A recent story out of the University of Wisconsin Law School offers an opportunity to consider the potential tensions between mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainings and academic freedom, particularly in legal education.
How identity politics and institutional cowardice have undermined the free speech on which our society relies.
The court concludes that, because the plaintiff hadn't applied to be hired, he didn't have standing to challenge the policy.
Republicans should remember that they have spent years railing against censorship on college campuses.
that it’s probably not “‘trying to advance the public exchange of ideas’ essential to a healthy democracy.”
The lawyers also argue that the speech in the newspaper was “not made pursuant to its right of free speech, but to instead to advance the personal agendas of male faculty members at Notre Dame [and others].”
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DEI statements are political litmus tests.
The media response to Claudine Gay's ouster has been ludicrous.
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The next president should put more effort into fixing the college's abysmal free speech ranking.
Restricting speech about the world's most pressing problems does not make them go away, nor does it settle any disputes.
Academic malfeasance by Harvard's president deserves media coverage and condemnation, not excuses.
A graduate student was forced to take down two pro-Palestinian signs from the door of her art studio, but others were allowed to keep up their own political messages.
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"The job of academia is the discovery of truth. Universities should not be in the bullshit business."
In her article, University of Pennsylvania professor Claire O. Finkelstein absurdly argued that colleges treat free speech as "near-sacred."
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Liz Magill and two other university leaders provoked bipartisan outrage by defending freedom of expression on campus.
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Younger Americans, in particular, appear to support calls for Palestinian liberation, but do they understand what a common slogan means?
Let's focus concretely on proposed bans on advocacy of "genocide," at Stanford and beyond.
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