Academic Freedom

More Must be Done to Preserve the Freedom to Research
Higher Education Reform
October 31, 2019

More Must be Done to Preserve the Freedom to Research

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Defending Increasingly Threatened Academic Freedoms Globally
Higher Education Reform
October 30, 2019

Defending Increasingly Threatened Academic Freedoms Globally

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If Academic Freedom is Suppressed There, How Do We Act Here?
Higher Education Reform
October 24, 2019

If Academic Freedom is Suppressed There, How Do We Act Here?

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Special Pleading: Free Speech and Australian Universities
Communication
December 13, 2018

Special Pleading: Free Speech and Australian Universities

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The US Professoriat and the Limits of Free Speech

The US Professoriat and the Limits of Free Speech

Researches at the University of Florida’s Brechner Center for Freedom of Information have studied the rights of public employees when they speak with the news media. Here, they look specifically at professors at public universities in the United States and find there are broad protections – within limits.

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A Cry From Canada: Freedom of Expression Under Attack at Our Universities

A Cry From Canada: Freedom of Expression Under Attack at Our Universities

The former president of the University of Saskatchewan argues that freedom of expression is under attack in Canada’s universities through an accumulation of episodes that diminish its significance and through a vector of intellectual laziness accompanied by ideology and anger.

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Webinar Archive: Disinvited Speakers and Academic Freedom

Webinar Archive: Disinvited Speakers and Academic Freedom

The same day that the U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called for “a national recommitment to free speech on campus” before an audience at Georgetown University, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, SAGE Publishing, and Index on Censorship magazine hosted a webinar on “Disinvited Speakers and Academic Freedom.”

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Limiting Campus Free Expression is Intolerance, Too

Limiting Campus Free Expression is Intolerance, Too

The response on many universities to a high tide of intolerance has been to limit free speech. That, says James Turk, is exactly the wrong response.

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Margaret Atwood: Please Don’t Censor Science Communication

Margaret Atwood: Please Don’t Censor Science Communication

A concern for free expression and respect for science journalism are two themes Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood expounds on in an article in the newest edition of ‘Index on Censorship.’

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Would Legislation Make Campus Free Speech Less Free?

Would Legislation Make Campus Free Speech Less Free?

Around the United States, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech on college campuses. Bt some of the approaches may do more harm than good, argues Neal Hutchens.

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Intolerance Threatens Free Inquiry in India’s Universities

Intolerance Threatens Free Inquiry in India’s Universities

The only way out of the current state of tension for Indian universities, argues political scientists Aftab Alam, is for the institutions to learn to tolerate everything except intolerance.

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In Search of Conservative Sociology

In Search of Conservative Sociology

As sociology has drifted further and further from any conservative touchstones, argues Robert Dingwall, it has become less and less able to understand the society that provides its subsistence.

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