Free Speech in Today’s Academia
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By Daniel Diermeier, Wall Street Journal
April 2, 2024
House Committee Approves Bill Mandating “Free Speech” Policies, Funding on the Line for Colleges
American Council on Education
March 25, 2024
If Berkeley Wants to Protect Free Speech It Will Expel Its Rioters
By Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo
February 28, 2024 The Free Press
Introducing America’s 10 Worst Censors
by FIRE, February 13, 2024
It’s Time to Adopt Institutional Neutrality
by Academic Freedom Alliance, Heterodox Academy, and FIRE, February 12, 2024
AFA joins with FIRE and HxA to Call for Institutional Neutrality
AFA Press Release, February 7, 2024
Ten common-sense reforms for colleges and universities
by FIRE, Feb. 1, 2024
New FIRE report finds 85% of top colleges have restrictive speech codes
by FIRE, January 31, 2024
Viral Anti-Semitism Testimony Exposes Duplicity Over Campus Free Speech
by Michael Washburn
Dec. 21, 2023
Elite American Universities Completely Beyond Hope
by Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian
Dec. 20, 2023
The Academy at the Crossroads
By Heather MacDonald, City Journal, Dec. 13, 2023
American universities face a reckoning over academic freedom
By The Economist
Dec. 12, 2023
How to Really Fix American Higher Education
by Bari Weiss, The Free Press
Dec. 12, 2023
The Ivy League Mask Falls
by the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
Dec. 10, 2023
What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong About Antisemitic Speech
by David French, New York Times
Dec. 10, 2023
The Politics of Campus Free Speech Draw Scrutiny
by Douglas Belkin and Laura Kusisto – Wall Street Journal
December 9, 2023
How Were the Universities Lost?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Dec. 8, 2023
Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins
By Ilya Shapiro
November 27, 2023
Choose Counterspeech Over Cancel Culture
by Nadine Strossen and Pamela Paresky – Time
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Perspective: College presidents can change the hostile environment on campuses
The speech climate at schools is dramatically influenced by administrators’ behavior
By Samuel J. Abrams
Nov 19, 2023
A Free Speech Fix for our Divided Campuses
by Suzanne Nossel
Nov. 18, 2023 Wall Street Journal
Dissenting faculty score a rare win against retaliation by the powers of DEI
by Jonathan Turley
Nov. 18, 2023
Hamas’s Barbarity Heightens the Crisis in Higher Education – WSJ
By Michael R. Bloomberg
Nov. 17, 2023 5:04 pm ET
Statehouses, Not Student Activists, Are the Real Threat to Free Speech
By Eduardo Penalver, The Chronicle of Higher Education May 17, 2023
The DEI Trojan Horse Is a University Leadership Failure | Opinion
Mar 21, 2023 at 6:00 AM EDT
By Dorian S. Abbot and Ivan Marinovic
Colleges Should Compete on Free Speech
Professor Randy Wayne – Why I Fight
College Alumni Groups Spread Nationally to Counter ‘Cancel Culture’ – By Susan Svrluga
The perilous quest for equal results in academia by Professor Amy Wax
Some thoughts on the Academic Freedom Alliance
Alumni Withhold Donations, Demand Colleges Enforce Free Speech
Introduction: free speech & the academy
My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit by Prof. Peter Boghossian
Free Speech on Campus By Ned Hall
