What are professors allowed to say? Where are we are allowed to say it? Last week Deborah O’Connor, a senior lecturer at Florida State University, was pushed to resign after making racist and ...

"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...

In a 2016 essay about life in academia, Monica Casper said that “in a shallow Twitter zeitgeist” you need to speak in a nuanced way when talking to the public about hot-button issues. She recently ...

Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a "zombie apocalypse" during the protest.

I n 1915, when the American Association of University Professors issued its seminal “Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure,” it identified three areas in which faculty ...

The censorship of academic speech is dangerous for us all. Silencing students and professors stunts free thinking. When free speech is shut down in schools, a domino effect ensues. Professionals ...

The University of Colorado board of regents unanimously voted to pass policies regarding free speech and academic freedoms on campus. The University of Colorado (CU) board of regents passed policy ...

Editor’s note: This submission is an edited version of an open letter to the university. More than 250 members of UCLA faculty signed this submission. Please see the original letter to view the ...

In its inaugural event, the Law School’s Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech hosted prominent legal scholars from across the country to discuss free speech on Yale’s campus. In honor of the ...

Free speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is that wokeness and political correctness have taken over, articulating a political ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...