If courts accept the views advanced by Florida and Indiana, legislators could dictate what faculty may say in public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The campus of UNC-Chapel Hill (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline) The UNC Systems’ Committee on University Governance gave an ...

With their wealth, exclusivity and global clout, American universities are an easy target for populist resentment. For Americans frustrated by inequality and cultural alienation, there may be a ...

Some Columbia professors have inserted a statement supporting academic freedom into their fall 2025 class syllabi in light of the University’s July 23 $221 million deal with President Donald Trump’s ...

Defending academic freedom is an all-hands-on-deck emergency. From the current administration’s scrutiny of (and executive orders related to) higher education, to state legislative overreach and ...

We write as generally right-of-center lawyers, scholars, and former government officials to affirm the central importance of academic freedom and to speak out against the Trump Administration’s ...

A new UNC System definition of “academic freedom” received unanimous approval from the system’s Board of Governors university governance committee on Wednesday, impacting the state’s 17 public ...

I recently posted to SSRN a draft of my new paper on "How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom." It is forthcoming in Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., Academic ...

The UNC Board of Governors is moving forward on adopting a system-wide definition of academic freedom. According to System officials the proposal "fills out a gap" in UNC BOG policies, which have long ...

The University of Minnesota Board of Regents approved a resolution Friday allowing the University president to limit statements from groups of faculty on “matters of public concern.” This means units ...

Suddenly, it seems everyone in the academy today — left, right and center — is an advocate of academic freedom. Whether on the right, as an appeal against “cancellation,” or on the left, in response ...

The UNC Systems’ Committee on University Governance gave an initial nod Wednesday to a formal definition for academic freedom. “Academic freedom as a concept is included in our code and has been for ...