These Professors Are Working to Restore Free Speech on Campus
Four classically liberal professors and an economist named Adam Smith walk into a room. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke; it was the first event of the…
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Vague Campus Rules Undermine Students’ Due Process and Free Speech Rights
Several years ago, the La Voz de Aztlan, a radical left-wing supplement to Fresno State University’s student newspaper, published a poem steeped in anti-American sentiment. It referred to America as…
In Troubled Times, Some Important Advances to Protect Student Rights
In the last few years, the rights of students in North Carolina universities have received some significant new protections. It is important that state legislators and educators continue to do so, for such rights—pertaining to free speech and due process of punitive proceedings—have been under assault on college campuses nationwide in recent years.
How not to handle incivility in the Digital Age
A sad fact about some of today’s college students—particularly those of the leftist variety—is that they place greater value on their emotions and ideology than they do on tolerance, sensibility, and free speech.
When university boards of governance actually govern
It is heartwarming to see state officials do the jobs they were elected to do. Too often they have shied away from their obligations to ensure that the university system adheres to appropriate standards of scholarship.
First Amendment Day at Chapel Hill stirs debate about “trigger warnings”
First Amendment Day at Chapel Hill stirs debate about “trigger warnings”
Another take on Salaita: not an abridgment of academic freedom, but a failure to uphold academic standards
Another take on Salaita: not an abridgment of academic freedom, but a failure to uphold academic standards
The Salaita case: when academic freedom collides with freedom of contract
The Salaita case: when academic freedom collides with freedom of contract
Part 2: My Criticisms Stand, Mr. Lazere
Professor Lazere’s response doesn’t rebuild his case that higher ed should have a leftist bias.
Free Speech on Campus?
Sure—as long as you haven’t previously said anything to offend groups that now hold trump cards.