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3 Feb 2022, 7:51 am by Keith E. Whittington
[The AFA calls on Collin College to reinstate Professor Michael Phillips] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to Collin College objecting to its treatment of Professor Michael Phillips. [read post]
23 Jan 2021, 2:16 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[On the validity of an impeachment trial for a former president.] [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 12:04 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[Universities should not compel professors to affirm their belief of contested values] The Academic Freedom Alliance today issued its first guidance statement. [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 11:21 am by Keith E. Whittington
During the debates surrounding the Mueller investigation into possible Russian interference with the 2016 presidential elections, we heard a great deal about presidential use of "otherwise lawful powers. [read post]
16 Jun 2021, 11:04 am by Keith E. Whittington
[Regardless of what one thinks about CRT, legislators should not try to suppress ideas in academia] Areo, the online culture and politics journal, is currently highlighting issues of free speech and intellectual freedom. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 1:50 pm by Keith E. Whittington
If universities do not take steps to address their campus free speech problems, politicians will do it for themPresident Donald Trump's proposed executive order on free speech in universities has once again turned a spotlight on the worries over campus free speech in the United States. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 3:59 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[A conversation with Oxford University's Jeff McMahan on asking difficult questions in moral philosophy] A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. [read post]
8 Mar 2022, 5:30 am by Keith E. Whittington
[The AFA calls on the University of Dayton to allow its faculty to hear from the speakers they want] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to the University of Dayton calling on the university to reaffirm its own commitments to freedom of thought after an unfortunate administrative intervention into a scholarly conference organized by members of its faculty and held on the university campus. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 5:30 am by Keith E. Whittington
A crude tool unlikely to do much good and that might do some harmDuring President Donald Trump's appearance at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference, he made a surprise announcement that he would soon be signing an executive order to improve the free speech climate on college campuses. [read post]
11 Aug 2021, 2:46 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[The University of Iowa minimizes academic freedom so the unvaccinated can feel more comfortable] The University of Iowa has declared itself to be a largely mask-free campus for the Fall of 2021. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 10:49 am by Keith E. Whittington
[Now available for viewing on C-Span] On December 12, I participated in a timely panel discussion at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on "Free Speech, Political Speech, and Hate Speech on Campus. [read post]
9 Jan 2023, 3:44 pm by Keith E. Whittington
[Legislative restrictions on ideas and viewpoints that can be advocated in the classroom undermine free inquiry] The Academic Freedom Alliance has issued a new guidance statement. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 8:36 am by Keith E. Whittington
Tara Leigh Grove and I discuss our work as commissioners on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States and various proposals for reforming the Supreme Court on the latest edition of the We the People podcast. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 7:31 am by Keith E. Whittington
[A conversation with the chancellor of the University of California at Irvine about academic freedom] A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 9:18 am by Keith E. Whittington
I noted earlier that the Republican majority leader in the lower chamber of the North Dakota state legislature had introduced a bill that would effectively gut faculty tenure in the state's public universities. [read post]
14 Sep 2021, 7:25 am by Keith E. Whittington
I'm a believer in positive reinforcement, and when university leaders do the right thing they should get credit for doing so. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 6:49 am by Keith E. Whittington
[A conversation with researchers at FIRE about the free speech climate on college campuses] A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 10:07 am by Keith E. Whittington
I more often note when universities behave badly—or threaten to behave badly—by sanctioning members of the campus community for expressing unpopular opinions. [read post]