Academic Freedom

U of Cape Town rescinds speaking invitation to Danish publisher of cartoons of Muhammad, citing security concerns and risk of polarization. Polarization ensues.

Turkey's Higher Education Council demands the resignation of more than 1,500 deans following Friday's failed coup attempt.

City University of New York is considering a new policy that it says will protect academic freedom, but some fear it could be used to squelch dissent.

Universities that set up shop globally should work to uphold principles such as academic freedom, gender equity and freedom of speech -- but they sometimes compromise, scholars argue.

The biennial Scholars at Risk gathering focuses on threats to scholars and academic values globally.

Members of the American Anthropological Association narrowly vote down a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.

Indiana U says important research on Alzheimer's disease is imperiled by new state abortion law.

Recent incidents at DePaul and UC Irvine raise the question of what obligations a college has to make sure that protesters -- while objecting to an event -- can't shut it down or block its ideas from being heard.