Tag: free speech

November 21, 2023

Campuses have long been hotbeds of debate, protest and political tensions, but few issues have been as vehemently contested in recent years as conflicts related to Israel and Palestine. It is no surprise, then, that as the Israel-Hamas conflict has […]

November 7, 2022

Some 87% of college students say they favor free and open expression on campus, 84% believe the right to free speech is “critical in our democracy,” and 59% think that college should allow students to be “exposed to all types […]

December 9, 2020

Trump intervened on campus free speech matters early in his tenure, threatening in 2017 to revoke the University of California, Berkeley’s, federal funding following violent demonstrations that halted a planned speech there by far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos. The Justice […]

March 26, 2019

This year is already shaping up to be a momentous one for higher education. In Congress, both parties have indicated reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is a priority. The U.S. Department of Education is underway with regulatory overhauls on […]

October 2, 2018

The academic year is well underway and already campuses are grappling with many of the same issues that characterized the turbulence of 2017-18. Among them, free speech concerns, the ongoing debate over the efficacy of affirmative action admissions policies and […]

September 24, 2018

A national survey of more than 140,000 freshmen published two years ago by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles indicated that student interest in political and civic engagement was at the highest level in […]

July 26, 2018

American Association of University Professors’ top attorney told the Chronicle that the case law in support of academic freedom for faculty members is clear, and that it was unusual to see the opposite position argued in briefs representing a university. […]

July 13, 2018

This summer, Education Dive is providing readers with a compilation of stories published during the past year that provide solutions to challenges facing colleges and universities nationwide. Next up — effective ways to handle free speech on campus issues. 6 […]

June 19, 2018

Some experts say there is a threat that state laws about free speech will limit the ability of universities to make judgments about what is taught or presented on campus, and AAUP recently issued a report about the history of […]

June 11, 2018

Free speech on campus is a hot button issue for higher education administrators who recognize the costly and often time highly damaging effects of mishandling a controversial speaker on campus. While proactively defining a free speech policy and developing a […]