P rinciples of academic freedom and diversity, equity, and inclusion will sometimes (perhaps increasingly often) collide, as Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder have argued recently in these pages.
A cademic freedom is a contested category these days, its meanings invoked on multiple fronts to criticize and defend the enterprise of higher education. And not for the first time. From its earliest ...
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Forces ranging from campus police, to state troopers, to national lawmakers are targeting faculty and ...
We write as generally right-of-center lawyers, scholars, and former government officials to affirm the central importance of academic freedom and to speak out against the Trump Administration's ...
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 ...
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 ...
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. All year we’ve bandied about phrases like “civil discourse, ...
An American Council on Education 2022 national study found that bipartisan majorities said that all topics, if fairly presented, should be open for discussion on college campuses, because college ...
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 ...
With the coming of a new academic semester, campus culture wars are sure to heat up again — and could be made more intense by the Trump administration’s anticipated actions. Questions about whether ...
The University of Florida prides itself on ascending to a top-five public university but in recent months, allegations of politically motivated infringements on academic freedom have ignited ...
Harvard’s graduate student union requested that the University guarantee academic freedom protections for graduate students’ teaching and research pursuits in a new contract proposal on Thursday, ...