Academic Freedom

Discussions about tenure votes are considered private on most campuses, but some say Dixie State is trumping up breach of confidentiality claims against two professors to get rid of them for political reasons.

Conversations about how best to handle free expression at colleges and universities dominated annual meeting of student affairs professionals.

Golden West College says a professor is on leave after she was recorded off-campus telling an Asian-American family to "go back to your home country."

Law students at Lewis & Clark College interrupt appearance by Christina Hoff Sommers.

Right after U of Tennessee faculty members agreed on plan to toughen oversight of tenured professors, system proposed rules many say endanger academic freedom.

UC San Diego Academic Senate rejects student-led push to cut a course on the filmmaker from the curriculum over sexual abuse allegations.

How did a professor's stray email linking to an Inside Higher Ed article result in a letter of reprimand in his personnel file?

Princeton professor who was criticized for using the word in a class on hate speech cancels the course.