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Echoes in the Quad
Columns Echoes in the Quad

How Elite Institutions Aided the Red Scare Attack on Academic Freedom

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

By Dominique J. Baker

Three historic photos put together in an illustration with damage added to the photos. Clockwise from top left: An elevated view of a suffrage parade, in the rain, in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, 1910s. A portrait of Susan B. Anthony. A group of young female suffragists, wearing sailor costumes, on a float decorated to resemble a boat, the mainsail reads “Votes for Women,” and the marquee reads “We Are Rudderless—We Need The Ballot,” 1900.”
Faculty Academic Freedom

Can Embattled Women’s and Gender Studies Programs Survive?

Scholars say recent Republican-led attacks on the field are nothing new, but nonetheless alarming.

The Ezekiel W. Cullen building with the UH logo on the front on the University of Houston campus.
Quick Takes

Houston University Asks Faculty to Pledge Not to ‘Indoctrinate’ Students

Faculty members in the University of Houston’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Science were asked to sign a three-page...
Students on lawn in front of Schaeffer Hall at the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City in 2024.
Governance State Oversight

A ‘Barrage of Bills’ Would Overhaul Higher Ed in Iowa—If They Actually Pass

The state’s new House Higher Education Committee has advanced a raft of bills that would hit universities’ pocketbooks, hide presidential candidates’ names, and more.

Opinion
Columns Debatable Ideas

Book Review: Campus Speech and Academic Freedom

In their new book, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman critique current threats to campus free speech, but their narrow definition of academic freedom risks free expression.

By John K. Wilson

Texas A&M administration building in College Station.
Business Academic Programs

Texas A&M Closes Women’s and Gender Studies Programs

The university has also canceled six classes and asked faculty to remove some course context. One free speech expert said Texas A&M is “staking out turf as the epicenter of higher education censorship nationwide.”

Student traveling on a scooter on the campus of Texas Tech University.
Quick Takes

Texas Tech Cancels Abortion Rights Advocate’s Speech After TPUSA Pressure

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center canceled a talk by a retired doctor who advocates for a woman’s right to...
Aerial over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring.
Faculty Academic Freedom

UNC Plans to Define Academic Freedom—and Its Limits

The Faculty Assembly’s proposed definition will soon go before the state university system’s board, but with added language such as “academic freedom is not absolute.” The state AAUP is objecting.