Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Book Bans and Censorship Are a Threat to Our Universities. Librarians Can Help
When I think about book bans, I consider the subject through a variety of lenses. I have taught English in a post-communist […]
The Chilling Impact of Censorship in Higher Education
Perhaps because college students are generally considered adults, and college and university campuses and classrooms have long been viewed as places to […]
War on Words
David Canter considers how words are the frontline in the battle for minds, revealed in the Trump administration banning many everyday words.
A Behavioral Scientist’s Take on the Dangers of Self-Censorship in Science
The word censorship might bring to mind authoritarian regimes, book-banning, and restrictions on a free press, but Cory Clark, a behavioral scientist at […]
Repression, Surveillance, and Censorship in Chinese Academia
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.
Watching China Watching Its Students Overseas
Where ideological issues such as Hong Kong and Taiwan are concerned, Australian lecturers tell of how a vocal minority of international Chinese students are attempting to police teaching materials and class discussions.
Campus Free Speech, Online?
Should student social media posts be punishable, even if they are made off-campus?
Archived Webinar: What Can Academics Teach us About Censorship During the Pandemic?
As COVID-19 forces the world in into a predominately digital state, censorship and the spread of misinformation have not been far behind. Our experiences dealing with […]
