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Peter Bonilla

Peter Bonilla is Vice President of Programs at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, where he has worked since 2008. Having previously directed FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program and managed a team of research and outreach fellows as part of FIRE's Speech, Outreach, Advocacy, and Research (SOAR) Project, he currently oversees FIRE's faculty programming and development. Interested professors are encouraged to join FIRE's Faculty Network.

Articles by Peter Bonilla

Apr 6, 2022 · Peter Bonilla

The Biggest Threat to Academic Freedom? We Don’t Teach It.

Challenges to Academic Freedom, a new volume edited by University of Georgia professor Joseph Hermanowicz, offers a fresh slate of perspectives on some of the issues potentially clouding academic freedom’s…

Feb 3, 2021 · Peter Bonilla

What’s in a Syllabus? The Keys to Undoing Academic Freedom, If We’re Not Careful

The syllabus is such a basic document that most of us tend not to think much about what goes into making one. What are its necessary ingredients? A listing of…