Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Watch! Methodspace Roundtables Examine Threats To Intellectual And Academic Freedom
Janet Salmons, the research community director of our sister site, Sage Methodspace, coordinated a series of research roundtables to discuss the obstacles facing academic freedom and how to navigate them.
The Impact of Book Bans on Higher Education
While book bans themselves remain sadly frequent across the United States, increasingly those efforts have zeroed in on campuses.
Banning Books Threatens the Freedom to Read
Banned Books Week is an annual event, typically held the last week of September, celebrating the freedom to read. The celebration sponsored […]
Nominations Invited for Annual Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
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.
A Further Response on the Application of Academic Freedom
In an essay last month on Social Science Space, I pointed out the hypocrisy of activists who demand maximum academic freedom for […]
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 […]
HEPI Offers Clarion Call to Protect Free Speech on Campus
Concerns that free speech is being on university campuses, at least in the United Kingdom, are overblown, with the biggest threat originating not on campuses but from the government and its Prevent program. That’s a key takeaway in a new paper from Britain’s Higher Education Policy Institute, Free Speech and Censorship on Campus.
Might Campus Free Speech Laws Muzzle Some Speech?
Some language in campus speech legislation may be largely symbolic and not change what many colleges are already doing. But, argues Neal Hutchens, some provisions in legislation could change campus speech rules in important ways.
