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Antigay and Unemployed

Professor who sought refuge from liberal academe at a Southern Baptist seminary finds out why tenure matters.

Bigoted Views vs. Bigoted Teaching

Indiana University condemns professor's racist and misogynistic tweets in strongest terms but won't fire him over views alone.

Free (or Unfree) to Think

Annual Scholars at Risk report on Academic Freedom Monitoring Project focuses on threats to student expression and highlights issues in Brazil, China, India, Sudan and Turkey.

College Ranking Metrics Should Include Academic Freedom

Isn’t academic freedom a serious enough principle, Richard Ashford, Shampa Biswas and Mohan J. Dutta ask, for its violations to be reflected in some manner in those metrics?
Opinion

Free Expression and Government Overreach

Colleges and universities must have the flexibility to deal with matters of conduct without the government looking over their shoulders, argues Sigal Ben-Porath.

Canceled Course Renews Academic Freedom Concerns

Yale report finds no violation of academic freedom in the cancellation of a course on dissent at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Experts say the incident points to tensions surrounding academic freedom in countries with limited political freedoms.

‘Difficult Conversations’

What does it mean when the National Communication Association shuts down discussions on its Listserv?

Middle East Studies Program Comes Under Federal Scrutiny

Education Department inquiry into Middle East studies program jointly operated by Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill raises academic freedom concerns.