American colleges and universities have traditionally encouraged free speech. Recent dismissals of professors are eroding their commitment to this core mission.
When the University of Florida barred three professors from testifying in a lawsuit over voting restrictions, it raised important questions of academic freedom and free speech.
Recent cases of tweets by a Boston University professor about racism and others have raised questions about what might be the limits to academic freedom.
As more countries flirt with democratic backsliding, we should all be concerned. We can look to academic freedom as a gauge.
A new clause being embedded in a number of university contracts attempts to restrict academics from speaking freely in public debate about issues that are outside their area of research.
Tensions between the government and the university sector ran high in 2018, with the government cutting funding to student places and research and a big push back from universities.
Disinviting a person to speak on a university campus adds up to abandoning freedom and speech.
A new report has found students and academics critical of China’s Communist Party are being harassed and intimidated by supporters of Beijing. Universities must do more to protect academic freedom.
On Wednesday last week, the Student Representative Council at the University of Sydney adopted a motion to boycott Israeli academics. The motion called specifically for the University to cut its current…
A wave of mostly partisan laws have sought to curtail what university faculty can say and teach.
