Academic Freedom

A federal court judge ruled Monday that Idris Robinson—a philosophy professor at Texas State University who was fired for an...

There’s good reason much of the public has lost trust in higher education.

By Justin P. McBrayer

What we actually have is a crisis of truth.

By Charlotte M. Canning

The House launched a wave of controversial legislation earlier this year that never made it through the Senate. But familiar-looking policy proposals emerged from the board overseeing public universities.

Tom Alter was fired from his tenured job at Texas State last fall in what free speech advocates call an egregious violation of First Amendment rights. He took his case on tour, advancing faculty organizing and solidarity at each stop.

Republican officials and some Jewish groups criticized the speech as antisemitic and unnecessarily political.

Many legislatures have wrapped up their regular sessions. Inside Higher Ed provides a rundown of major legislation that passed in nine of these states.