Universities exist to pursue ideas wherever they may lead. That mission cannot survive if professors must fear, as many now ...

The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones ...

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2025-09-19 09:00:00 2025-09-19 15:15:00 Federal Reach, Academic Speech: The Legal Limits of Executive Authority in Higher Education Event Description In the early ...

Seven months after it was approved by the Board of Regents, a University of Minnesota resolution on institutional speech that was implemented amid campus turmoil over the war in Gaza continues to draw ...

True freedom of academic speech is a fundamental tenet of democracy and necessary to provide a diverse and credible education. UCLA must fight for academic freedom. Trump’s $1 billion demand is the ...

Following disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in spring 2024, the federal government, state lawmakers and college officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on student speech, resulting in a wave of ...

"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...

A divided federal appeals court ruled that the University of Washington violated a computer science professor’s First Amendment rights by investigating and warning him over a parody land ...

From yesterday's decision by Judge Kirk Sherriff (E.D. Cal.) in Johnson v. Fliger (for more on an earlier phase of the case, see here): Plaintiff Daymon Johnson, a professor of history at Bakersfield ...