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Texas A&M University\u00a0told philosophy professor<\/a>\u00a0Martin Peterson in early January 2026 that he could not teach some of Greek philosopher Plato\u2019s writings that touch on \u201crace and gender ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

The university\u2019s local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, an organization of professors and academics in the U.S.,\u00a0quickly denounced this requirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peterson, in response to his university\u2019s direction,\u00a0replaced the Plato readings<\/a>\u00a0with material on free speech and academic freedom.<\/p>\n

Silencing a professor from teaching a certain subject fits within what experts\u00a0have long recognized<\/a>\u00a0as encroaching on\u00a0academic freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In another high-profile incident at Texas A&M in September 2025, a student\u00a0filmed an exchange<\/a>\u00a0with an English literature professor, Melissa McCoul, who was talking about gender identity.<\/p>\n

The student said that McCoul was violating President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0January 2025 executive order<\/a>\u00a0that recognized \u201cwomen are biologically female, and men are biologically male.\u201d As a result, the student told her professor, as seen in her video, \u201cI\u2019ve already been in touch with the president of A&M, and I have a meeting with him in person to show all of my documentation tomorrow.\u201d\u00a0Her video<\/a>\u00a0went viral.<\/p>\n

This represents a growing threat to academic freedom: Students who act as informants and police their classes and professors for signs of political incorrectness.<\/p>\n

A 2023 study\u00a0found that<\/a>\u00a075% of college students feel free to report their professors if they say something objectionable. Self-identified liberal students were more likely than conservative students to report their professors to the administration.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0someone who teaches<\/a>\u00a0politically charged subjects, I am very much aware of the need to teach in inclusive ways and respect the diversity of student views. I\u00a0have also written about<\/a>\u00a0how academic freedom is changing, given new external threats and political realities. I recognize that students will play an important role in determining the future of academic freedom.<\/p>\n

Academic freedom is not the same as free speech<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Academic freedom is a\u00a0complex concept<\/a>\u00a0that is often confused with freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

The American Association of University Professors\u00a0offers one definition<\/a>: Academic freedom is focused on ensuring that professors can say, teach, discuss and write about any issue within their field, without \u201cinterference from administrators, boards of trustees, political figures, donors, or other entities.\u201d<\/p>\n

As law professor Stanley Fish\u00a0has argued<\/a>, freedom of speech \u2013 meaning\u00a0the right to express oneself without restraint<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0has no place in college classrooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Fish notes<\/a>, college classrooms are about the pursuit of truth.<\/p>\n

In Fish\u2019s view, this is true in both public and private colleges and universities, even though the Supreme Court\u00a0has held<\/a>\u00a0that free speech applies in any public higher education institution.<\/p>\n

I believe that Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University, made a mistake when he\u00a0said in November 2025<\/a>, \u201cColleges get free speech right through millions of conversations \u2026 that take place in dorm rooms or dining hall tables or at public events or classrooms in colleges and universities across the U.S. every year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dorms, dining halls, public events, yes. Classrooms, no.<\/p>\n

As the American Association of University Professors\u2019\u00a0preamble says<\/a>, higher education institutions depend \u201cupon the free search for truth and its free exposition.\u201d It goes on to say, \u201cAcademic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and research.\u201d<\/p>\n

While that statement is not legally binding, it establishes a set of standards that\u00a0are widely endorsed<\/a>\u00a0throughout higher education.<\/p>\n

The September 2025 incident at Texas A&M is so worrisome because it suggests that faculty are being required to adhere to a political ideology, rather than allowed to pursue the truth as they see it.<\/p>\n

Self-censorship on the rise<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Despite most colleges and universities embracing academic freedom, a rising number of college professors\u00a0are today censoring themselves in their classrooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Approximately 58% of faculty interviewed in a national survey\u00a0in 2024 reported<\/a>\u00a0\u201cregularly self-censoring in \u2026 conversations with students outside of class and in classroom conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, a 2024 study done at Harvard University\u00a0found that<\/a>\u00a0\u201cMany Harvard faculty members and instructors \u2026 reported reluctance to discuss controversial subjects inside and outside the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such pervasive\u00a0fear has<\/a>\u00a0a clear chilling effect in controlling what professors teach and say.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a 2024 report from the American Enterprise, a conservative think tank,\u00a0explains that faculty self-censorship<\/a>\u00a0\u201cincreases when faculty engage with students who could record and circulate words, in or out of context, to the world in a matter of seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students\u2019 rights to record classroom discussions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The legal landscape concerning the rights of students to record what happens in a college classroom\u00a0is complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0some states<\/a>, like Alabama and Maine, people\u00a0can record someone without their consent,<\/a>\u00a0if they are directly part of the conversation being documented. In other states,\u00a0like California and Massachusetts<\/a>, all people part of the conversation need to consent to being recorded.<\/p>\n

Many universities\u00a0have their own rules<\/a>\u00a0regarding recording. Some limit it in classes, except as necessary to accommodate students with particular disabilities.<\/p>\n

Harvard, for example,\u00a0prohibits any member<\/a>\u00a0of a course from posting identifiable classroom statements on social media without people\u2019s written consent.<\/p>\n

Protecting academic freedom<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The September Texas A&M controversy resulted in the university\u00a0firing McCoul<\/a>. Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III also\u00a0stepped down<\/a>\u00a0from his position in September.<\/p>\n

In November, a faculty committee then determined that the university\u00a0did not have good reason<\/a>\u00a0to fire McCoul \u2013 though she has not been reinstated to her position.<\/p>\n

I believe that colleges, universities and groups like the American Association for University Professors need to think about academic freedom differently than they did in 1940, when the association first adopted its academic freedom statement.<\/p>\n

This will require colleges and universities to take steps to protect faculty from direct attempts by the government, or outside groups, to punish them for saying something that the government or others deem controversial.<\/p>\n

But protecting faculty is also about establishing new norms to govern the classroom.<\/p>\n

Adopting the think tank\u00a0Chatham House\u2019s rules<\/a>, which say that people during meetings cannot attribute anything said to a specific speaker without their consent, is a possible path.<\/p>\n

I have gone one step further. I now begin my classes by discussing my own classroom compact that covers academic freedom, academic integrity and the values that will inform and guide the work we will do.<\/p>\n

Students are also required to pledge that they will not post anything about my class, or anything said in it, on social media with or without attribution. And I remind them that Massachusetts legally requires the consent of all people part of a conversation when it comes to recording.<\/p>\n

Helping students understand the meaning and value of academic freedom and enlisting them to help protect it is not an easy task. However, the future of that value may depend on it.<\/p>\n

>Author Bio: <\/strong>Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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