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Arik Burakovsky, an expert on relations between the U.S. and Russia, shines light on the future of cooperation between Russia and the West in the realm of higher education.
More than 90 organizations based in higher education, ranging from the American Council on Education and American Association of University Professors to the Yes We Must Coalition and EDUCAUSE, have signed a statement supporting “academic inquiry and debate” on American campuses.
The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas.
Associate professor Siouxsie Wiles and professor Shaun Hendy have become well known for their work explaining the science behind COVID-19 and guiding the public and government response. Is their home institution doing enough to protect them from bad actors?
First Amendment law in the United states generally prohibits the government from restricting individuals’ right to speak freely. But the First Amendment rules that apply to the government when it limits the speech of its own employees are much more government-friendly, allowing greater restrictions of those workers’ speech.
In an essay last month on Social Science Space, I pointed out the hypocrisy of activists who demand maximum academic […]
Professor Dan A. Segal responds to criticisms in an earlier Social Science Space article and argues that his stance on the BDS movement is consistent with academic freedom.
How sweeping should academic freedom be? Should someone who fought their own battle to preserve put conditions on what they would offer to others?
The question how to approach international academic cooperation with totalitarian China therefore leads to no easy answers. It nonetheless merits much greater attention than it has received so far.
When the University of Florida barred three of its professors from serving as paid experts in a Florida voting rights […]
Totalitarian rule and the governance strategies it entails have direct implications for academic internationalization at Chinese universities and for their collaboration with universities abroad.
Within Communist academia, scholarship is managed top-down to a significant degree, for the benefit of part, state and society, and independent research operates in the nooks and crannies that remain. In this institutional environment, independent public speech carries a considerable risk, as does, to an extent, independent thought.
