Academic Freedom

Purdue Global faculty members will no longer be required to sign a contentious employee agreement that allowed the university to be arbiter of who owns rights to instructional materials.

First-of-its-kind survey of China scholars seeks to quantify just how frequently they encounter repressive actions by the Chinese state intended to stop or circumscribe their research. A majority say self-censorship is a problem.

Rutgers University ruled that a professor's supposedly satirical comments on white gentrification violated university policy. In response to public backlash, the university is reviewing its initial decision.

Emory is investigating a law professor who used the slur in a torts class about a case involving the word "Negro."

As the field grapples with the past’s racial legacies, the rhetoric of academic freedom is being weaponized against those committed to making it more inclusive, writes Dorothy Kim.

By Dorothy Kim

Following uproar in conservative press, Rutgers says historian's screed against gentrification in Harlem (and the white people like himself it attracts) violates university policy. Others see free speech.

Texas faculty members sued, saying that classroom speech would be limited because of fear of gun violence. Judges rejected argument.

We should all be alarmed by The Nation’s treatment of a left-wing poet, Adam Szetela writes.

By Adam Szetela