Academic Freedom

Students’ happiness with their grade, not instructional quality, is a major driver of the correlation between high grades and high student ratings of instruction, according to a new working paper. Interventions don’t quite work, either.

A Penn State professor says he was protecting pro–vaccine mandate demonstrators when he struggled with a counterprotester. The professor was vindicated in court, but Penn State wants to fire him anyway.

Part performance, part protest, a professor’s video got him suspended from Ferris State University. He didn’t want to teach in person in the first place due to COVID-19, and he says he’s retiring. His union says the suspension is an attack on academic freedom.

Author discusses his book about why faculty members should not take their rights for granted.

A painting of Mary and Jesus, featuring a Jesus that resembles George Floyd, was stolen—twice—from the Catholic University of America. Many students don’t want it back on campus.

Professors seek a united faculty voice against legislative incursions into the curriculum with respect to the teaching of race.

Why isn’t the American higher education community, Terri Taylor asks, talking more—indeed, doing more—about this broad assault on academic freedom?

Why is Marian University axing its political science program and cutting its only tenured expert in U.S. government and politics?