Tenure reform is en vogue in red states like Florida, but at least one right-leaning professor in Texas warns of the potential fallout for conservative professors if tenure protections are changed. Adam Kolasinski, the James…
Topic: academic freedom
North Dakota moves tenure reform forward
North Dakota, a state not often in the national headlines, is making waves due to state lawmakers advancing a bill couched as reforming tenure in colleges and universities. Bill sponsor Rep. Mike Lefor called the…
North Dakota bill proposes tenure reform process like Florida
Editor’s Note: The original article inaccurately described the whistleblowing concerns surrounding House Bill 1446. We have updated the article to present more information about these specific concerns and included a quote from Eric Grabowsky. Florida…
Penn law professor offends the Left, but is saved by tenure
The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School is under fire, again, over comments made by one of its law professors named Amy Wax. Wax, a tenured faculty member, has a history of making comments and…
MESA’s Shameful Betrayal of Academic Freedom
Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) voted at their recent annual meeting to advance a resolution endorsing an academic boycott of…
Book details Evergreen State’s Free Speech Crisis
In 2017, a controversy embroiled Bret Weinstein, a self-described liberal, white professor at Evergreen State College, who was vilified by students when he refused to stay off campus on the School’s Day of Absence, an…
Terror U: Who is Suppressing Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities?
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In January of…
Suppressing Academic Freedom in the Name of Inclusion at McGill
Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In what has…
Pitzer College President Visits Holy Land after Students Tried to Axe Israel Study Abroad Program
Pitzer College’s president visited an Israeli university to celebrate academic freedom, soon after students and faculty tried to axe the college’s study-abroad program in Israel and tried to oust him.
Academic Freedom Reaffirmed Under Governor Walker
The Wisconsin Board of Regents under Republican Governor Scott Walker have actually reaffirmed their commitment to academic freedom in the state university system.
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