Free Speech in Today’s Academia

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“War and the Collapse of the Campus Speech Consensus: Israel, Hamas, and the contradictions of college administrators” By Geoff Shullenberger (November 9, 2023, The Chronicle of Higher Education)

“The Wisdom of the University of Chicago’s ‘Kalven Report’,” by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, suggests that colleges and universities should remain neutral in terms of social issues of the day. (October 12, 2023)

Newsweek warns about the danger of the growing acceptance of free speech restrictions in academia: “College Kids are Abandoning America Values. It’s Going to Destroy Our Democracy.” (Oct. 3, 2023)

A professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California, who grew up in Communist Russia, describes disconcerting similarities between her Russian experiences and today’s American academia.

Colleges Should Compete on Free Speech

Speech delivered by the Honorable Laurence Silberman, Senior Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, on September 20, 2022, at Dartmouth University

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

Alumni Free Speech Alliance

Rights in Education (FIRE)

Some thoughts on the Academic Freedom Alliance

Alumni Withhold Donations, Demand Colleges Enforce Free Speech

Introduction: free speech & the academy

We Can’t Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves by Dr. Pano Kanelos, President of the University of Austin

My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Today I Quit by Prof. Peter Boghossian

Free Speech on Campus By Ned Hall

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