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Giving an F for Recording Classes, Even for Students With Disabilities
A UCLA professor whose classroom hosts contentious debates says she’ll fail any student who records. She says it’s a matter of academic freedom. But does federal law allow it?
LSU Fires Tenured Shreveport Professor, Environmental Advocate
A Dean Called for Silencing Harvard’s Faculty Critics. He’s Been Roasted.
Lawrence D. Bobo’s argument that professors should face sanctions for inciting “external actors” to “intervene” at the university has been roundly lambasted. But it tapped into an ongoing debate: When is outside intervention warranted?
Florida Argues It Could Stop Professors From Criticizing Governor
A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national implications for academic freedom could be dire.
Harassment Investigation of USC Professor Dismissed
Do Law Review Editors Have Academic Freedom?
Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq argue that they do.
UNC Fires Professor They Secretly Recorded
The university recorded Larry Chavis’s class without his consent for a professional review. Last week he was told his contract would not be renewed.
Universities of Wisconsin Wants to Fire Joe Gow—Again
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse was fired last year for making and distributing porn. Now the UW system is coming after his tenured faculty job.