academic freedom Archives - Page 6 of 6

NEWS BRIEFS: Celebrating MLK Day With A Campus Ban

Representative Bob Thorpe has introduced a bill in the Arizona legislature that would ban campus activities-programs associated with social justice …

by Future U/ January 16, 2017/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Read about Alice Dreger’s situation at Northwestern. Text is from the Afterword, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s …

by Future U/ December 14, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Read the Committee’s report here. Sign a national petition sponsored by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Encourage …

by Future U/ December 10, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“Does tenure protect intellectual freedom or force academics to think the same way?” Read Alice Dreger’s provocative essay (from AEON).

by Future U/ December 9, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

New website is seen by some as threat to academic freedom, by others as accountability in higher ed. Read more from The …

by Future U/ November 30, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Ruth Graham, Wheaton College alumna, writes expressively about Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton. Hawkins left …

by Future U/ October 14, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

From The Guardian: “The University of California, Berkeley has suspended a course dedicated to studying Palestine “through the lens of …

by Future U/ September 16, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

A case at Florida Atlantic U. raises questions about if and when the right to inquiry conflicts with “common decency.”

by Future U/ December 18, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/