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    A German Professor Going to U VA to Teach About the Far-Right Had His Visa Held Up By the State Dept

    "This Renowned German Professor Was Headed to U-Va. to Teach About the Rise of Far-Right Extremism. The State Department Held Up His...

    Threats Derailing Academic Careers

    "When a 'Threat' Derails a Career" By Colleen Flaherty Inside Higher Ed

    Combating BDS Act of 2019

    Senator Marco Rubio (re)introduced the Combating BDS Act of 2019 as the first proposed bill of the 2019 legislative session. According to...

    Jane Mayer Interview on "Dark Money"

    Jane Mayer explains the strategies of funders (such as Koch and Olin), their aim at the Ivy Leagues, their focus on creating a...

    Anti-BDS Law Challenged in Arkansas

    "Yesterday the company that owns and publishes the Arkansas Times filed suit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of a...

    The Misplaced Site of Free Speech Wars

    Salon's Amanda Marcotte reports that centering campuses as the true sites for free speech wars plays into "right-wing hoaxes and scare...

    Berkeley City Lawmakers Propose Limits On Police Posting Protestor Mugshots

    Berkeley city lawmakers have proposed a new ordinance to ban police from posting mugshots on social media, so long as the person arrested...

    Program Productivity Proposal at the University of Wisconsin System

    Inside Higher Ed's Colleen Flaherty recently reported on another controversial policy proposal from the University of Wisconsin system....

    Albert Ponce

    After a public lecture on race and politics in the United States in October 2017, Albert Ponce, political science professor at Diablo...

    Canary Mission Anonymity Begins to Erode

    Since its inception in 2015, Canary Mission administrators have maintained full anonymity in their now infamous blacklisting and...

    Overlooking Harassment and Threats to Faculty Compromises Academic Freedom

    Emma Whitford of Inside Higher Ed recently reported that Albert Ponce, a political science professor at Diablo Valley College, received...

    Canary Mission: From Campus Threat to Border

    Canary Mission launched a website database in 2015, which it claimed "documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the...

    Speech First

    Recently groups such as Speech First have been portrayed as grassroots associations of concerned citizens hoping to fight against threats...

    The Problem of Administrative Epistemology

    The ongoing, renewed scandal of University of Southern California’s (USC) handling of sexual harassment reports has brought many...

    The Perverse Effects of Marketization on Scientific Discovery

    Without public investment, universities begin to operate like businesses: with a focus on the bottom line. Though scientific output has...

    Anti-Semitism Awareness Act

    H.R. 5924/S. 2940, referred to as the "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act," directs the Department of Education to take the State Department's...

    BDS and Academic Freedom

    Rana Jaleel argues in the November-December 2016 issue of Academe that the boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions movement (BDS)...

    Free Speech and Censorship in High Schools and Elementary Schools

    A high school Valedictorian in Covington, KY was denied his speech time at graduation after the local diocese of the Catholic school...

    University Governing Boards Increasingly Keep Presidential Candidates Secretive

    Inside Higher Ed's Judith Wilde reports on her research into university presidential searches. Along with the trend toward outsourcing...

    Campus Free-Speech Legislation: History, Progress, and Problems

    A recent AAUP report, Campus Free-Speech Legislation: History, Progress, and Problems, documents and contextualizes how The Goldwater...

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