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 Visa." By Moriah Balingi...
Threats Derailing Academic Careers"When a 'Threat' Derails a Career" By Colleen Flaherty Inside Higher Ed
Combating BDS Act of 2019Senator Marco Rubio (re)introduced the Combating BDS Act of 2019 as the first proposed bill of the 2019 legislative session. According to Palestine Legal, th...
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 conservative professoriate, an...
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 state law requiring gove...
The Misplaced Site of Free Speech WarsSalon's Amanda Marcotte reports that centering campuses as the true sites for free speech wars plays into "right-wing hoaxes and scare tactics" and misses th...
Berkeley City Lawmakers Propose Limits On Police Posting Protestor MugshotsBerkeley city lawmakers have proposed a new ordinance to ban police from posting mugshots on social media, so long as the person arrested does not pose a dir...
Program Productivity Proposal at the University of Wisconsin SystemInside Higher Ed's Colleen Flaherty recently reported on another controversial policy proposal from the University of Wisconsin system. This policy proposal ...
Albert PonceAfter a public lecture on race and politics in the United States in October 2017, Albert Ponce, political science professor at Diablo Valley College, was har...
Canary Mission Anonymity Begins to ErodeSince its inception in 2015, Canary Mission administrators have maintained full anonymity in their now infamous blacklisting and harassment of Palestinian ri...
Overlooking Harassment and Threats to Faculty Compromises Academic FreedomEmma Whitford of Inside Higher Ed recently reported that Albert Ponce, a political science professor at Diablo Valley College, received threats to his safety...
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 USA, Israel and Jews...
Speech FirstRecently groups such as Speech First have been portrayed as grassroots associations of concerned citizens hoping to fight against threats to free speech. The...
The Problem of Administrative EpistemologyThe ongoing, renewed scandal of University of Southern California’s (USC) handling of sexual harassment reports has brought many questions to the forefront o...
The Perverse Effects of Marketization on Scientific DiscoveryWithout public investment, universities begin to operate like businesses: with a focus on the bottom line. Though scientific output has doubled every 9 years...
Anti-Semitism Awareness ActH.R. 5924/S. 2940, referred to as the "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act," directs the Department of Education to take the State Department's anti-Semitism definit...
BDS and Academic FreedomRana Jaleel argues in the November-December 2016 issue of Academe that the boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions movement (BDS) movement's many opponents are...
Free Speech and Censorship in High Schools and Elementary SchoolsA high school Valedictorian in Covington, KY was denied his speech time at graduation after the local diocese of the Catholic school deemed it "inappropriate...
University Governing Boards Increasingly Keep Presidential Candidates SecretiveInside Higher Ed's Judith Wilde reports on her research into university presidential searches. Along with the trend toward outsourcing the search to private ...
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 Institute, a conservati...
