Academic Freedom

Facing backlash and accusations of squelching academic freedom, a class is restored.

Critics said one-credit, student-led course was anti-Zionist. The university said it acted on procedural grounds.

Open-records requests involving a SUNY Plattsburgh professor who backs the Israel boycott follow pattern of challenges to faculty members with controversial views on a range of issues.

North Carolina has no shortage of higher education issues, but its gubernatorial candidates haven't been talking about them -- reflecting races across the country.

Northwestern orders professor to stay away. She says she is being punished for her activism. Some professors defend university, saying she made them fear for safety.

NYU professor who was invited to show his acclaimed film at Syracuse U conference is then told not to come because of his nationality. University vows to invite him another time.

A significant -- and vocal -- contingent of students increasingly regards free speech as nothing more than a weapon of the rich, the powerful and the privileged, writes Jeffrey Aaron Snyder.

By Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Pizza baron's gift to Wayne State business school draws scrutiny over provisions requiring consulting with donors on certain courses and stipulations on what a dean should be paid.