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Free Speech Razzies
- Thomas Jefferson Center For Free Expression (new window)
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2010-04-15
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| This week our allies at the Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression released their “Muzzle” awards condemning the worst free speech violations this year.
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2010-04-15
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| University of Illinois – Chicago Professor William Ayers filed suit today against the University of Wyoming for barring him from speaking on campus.
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UW Faculty Pass Academic Freedom Policy
- Wisconsin Badger-Herald (new window)
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2010-04-15
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| Faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison successfully passed a new University policy this week firmly establishing their rights to academic freedom and shared governance.
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2010-04-14
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| The New York Times recently wrote an article on a new legislative attack on academic freedom.[1] In two states, Louisiana and Maryland, legislators have introduced bills to restrict the cases and clients that law clinics at public universities can take on. These bills come hot on the heels of two high profile public interest lawsuits filed by clinics at the University of Maryland and Tulane. |
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2010-04-07
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| State Legislators in Maryland and Louisiana are attempting to restrict the cases and clients academic law clinics at public universities can take on in response to a number of high-profile public interest cases.
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2010-04-07
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| Last week the University of Wyoming cancelled a proposed talk by education professor William Ayers amidst threats of violence.
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Academic Freedom Wins In Ohio Court
- The Chronicle of HIgher Education (new window)
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2010-04-01
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| In a win for local Academic Freedom advocates a federal judge in Ohio ruled that the Supreme Court’s 2006 decision Garcetti v Cebellos does not apply to faculty at public colleges and universities. |
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2010-04-01
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| Last week a federal judge in Texas struck down policies at Tarrant Community College that barred students from holding protests or demonstrations outside of a small “free speech area.” |
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2010-03-12
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| On Wednesday night the Associated Students of UCSD Council voted to lift the temporary freeze on funding to student media outlets that had effectively shut down the majority of campus media outlets for the past two weeks.
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2010-03-05
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| CampusReform.org has a new article up in their resources section entitled “How a College Student Can Safely Create Pain For A Professor Who is Misusing His Bully Pulpit” by economics pundit Gary North. The article purports to teach students how to “digitally kneecap” professors who they disagree with by attacking them online.
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2010-03-05
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| The Student Government at the College of William and Mary has just passed a resolution demanding an end to restrictive speech zones on their campus and a new policy on chalking.
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2010-03-05
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| The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) published a new report last week titled Shaping the American Mind: the Diverging Influences of College Degrees and Civic Learning on American Beliefs aimed at gauging the impact of university education on graduates’ political opinions. While we have no problem with the Institute pursuing this question, their methodology and analysis wouldn’t hold up in the academic institutions it seeks to criticize, much less in front of a skilled reporter.
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2010-02-26
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| Controversy surrounding an off-campus party mocking Black History Month has set off a series of actions that could threaten the free exchange of ideas at the University of California – San Diego.
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2010-02-24
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| Lawmakers in Maryland have introduced Bills in both houses of the legislature to extend First Amendment rights to most private colleges and universities in the state.
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2010-02-22
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| Since the 2006 Supreme Court Decision Garcetti v. Cebellos, faculty members at our nation’s public colleges have found their academic freedom and rights to speak out on issues of institutional governance on much more tenuous grounds. The termination of Dr. Ivor Van Heerdan from Louisiana State University this month is just the latest in a series of firings and disciplinary action related to faculty members’ speech.
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2010-02-22
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| This week the University of Delaware held a panel discussion on the First Amendment rights of students on public campuses. While we’re happy that University acknowledges that students are sometimes unclear about their rights on campus, the message the panel seemed to convey was that campus speech is a tricky issue that the courts have been inconsistent on.
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More Trouble at the Movies
- The Daily Iowan (new window)
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2010-02-19
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| A student run movie theatre at the University of Iowa canceled plans to show a pornographic film last week under pressure from the University’s administration. Now, the theater’s governing board is negotiating a “defense system” with the administration, where the theater would ask for approval before screening controversial films. The situation eerily mirrors last year’s controversial film screening at the University of Maryland that led the Board of Regents to consider restrictions on the types of films shown, at the behest of the legislature.
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2010-02-18
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| In many states this month marks the beginning of a legislative session. For lawmakers and advocates alike, the next few months will be one of the busiest times of the year. Along with our partners in the Free Exchange on Campus Coalition, the Center for Campus Free Speech will be closely monitoring statehouses around the nation for new attacks on academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas.
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2010-02-04
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| As many have heard already, the University of Oregon is embroiled in controversy over allowing the community organization, the Pacifica Forum to meet on its campus.
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2010-01-26
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| Over the past decade supporters of the free exchange of ideas on campus have seen a correlation between panicked responses to terrorism and attacks on academic freedom and campus speech. It’s not surprising then that much of the commentary surrounding Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s Christmas Day attempt to blow up an airliner bound for the United States has focused on his time as a student and president of the Islamic Students Society at University College London.
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Garcetti Strikes Again
- Inside Higher Education (new window)
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2010-01-05
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| Another Court, this time in Idaho, is interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 case Garcetti v Ceballos to limit the First Amendment protections for faculty members.
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2009-12-23
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| Season's Greetings,
As many of us leave campus to celebrate the Holidays we take this time to reflect on the challenges and accomplishments of the past Semester. |
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Victory in Maryland
- Washington Post (new window)
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2009-11-12
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| Wednesday, students in the University System of Maryland won a huge victory for free speech when the Board of Regents unanimously rejected a proposal to adopt policies regulating the showing of films on campus.
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2009-11-10
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| Despite outrage from police unions and pressure from Governor Deval Patrick, the University of Massachusetts has decided to continue with a scheduled speech by former terrorist Ray Luc Lavasseur. |
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2009-11-10
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| Yesterday our partners in the Free Exchange on Campus Coalition, the American Association of University Professors launched a new “awareness and action campaign” to protect Academic Freedom from a spate of attacks based on the 2006 Supreme Court decision Garcetti v. Ceballos.
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2009-11-05
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| A Federal Judget issued a restraining order yesterday allowing students at Tarrant County College in Texas to protest outside of the school’s designated “Free Speech Zone.” The students are suing TCC alleging the “Free Speech Zone” is an unconstitutional restriction on their speech.
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2009-11-03
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| Over the past two weeks a disturbing trend has been emerging in the world of academic freedom. As economic recession and rising budget shortfalls put strain on colleges and universities around the country, large donors are playing a greater role in determining University Programming. |
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2009-10-30
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| This morning the acting president of Soutwestern College confirmed that students and faculty at Southwestern University were being investigated by campus police for leaving a designated “free speech zone.” Upon review it appears that Southwestern’s “Free Expression Policies” are some of the most restrictive in the nation. |
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Suspended for Walking Across Campus?
- The Chronicle of Higher Education (new window)
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2009-10-27
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| The four Southwestern College faculty barred from campus after joining a student protest may now face criminal charges for walking outside the school’s designated “Free Speech Area.” |
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