Academic freedom

Southwestern College says that barring professors from teaching or stepping on campus isn't a punishment.

East Georgia College has dropped an unspecified sexual harassment charge against an English professor who, ironically, had openly criticized the lack of protections for the falsely accused in its sexual harassment policy.

Some at Purdue want to see a librarian fired, but amid fierce debate over tolerance and free expression, university declines to do so.

California community college sued by students and faculty for opening official events with Christian prayer.

Trustees approve a policy that applauds free expression, but says it's not an "absolute" right on campus.

Finding "free expression at risk," academic and civil liberties groups issue joint call to defend controversial speakers, books and exhibits.

Professors organize on behalf of Minnesota grad student, whose academic freedom they believe is undercut by prosecutors' demands that he reveal what he knows about underground animal rights activists.

Why did Oklahoma State back out of an anthrax study involving primates? Did the university fear violence? Was it afraid of offending a donor?

Federal judge rejects college's request to apply Supreme Court ruling in way that would limit free speech rights of faculty members at public colleges.

It's been more than a decade since Cary Nelson summed up his views on problems facing higher education in Manifesto of a Tenured Radical. As Nelson would be the first to admit, the issues he identified in that book have not changed -- or at least not in the direction he would want.