Academic Freedom

Professors are often lightning rods, but many see a new menace to academic freedom in recent physical threats against faculty members who speak out on race and other issues.

At meeting of college lawyers, panelists rue students’ lack of understanding of First Amendment and share strategies for balancing expression and sensitivity.

As right-wing groups scale up their attacks on higher education, colleges and universities need to take bold steps to support scholars who are being targeted, argue Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein.

Faculty groups alarmed by potential impact of new TSA plan for screening carry-on luggage.

Two more professors -- one at Trinity of Connecticut and one at Syracuse -- find themselves the target of physical threats and harassment.

Professor’s essay about the original color of classical statues is mocked by conservative websites -- and then she receives online threats.

AAUP, with some dissent, lifts censure of Illinois over Salaita case. Spalding U and Community College of Aurora are added for what association sees as violations of academic freedom.

A dispute about a sociology test question on slave families ended in a lecturer's termination this spring at the University of Tennessee.