Academic Freedom

An English professor wrote in a conservative media outlet, opposing his department’s new “anti-racist statement.” The next month, the statement was gone. His own statement of protest linked to a racist column.

Last year, a watchdog organization publicly called out Kareem Tannous, then a tenure-track assistant business professor at Cabrini University, about his tweets. Tannous said he was fired, and he now plans to sue.

Courts, policy makers and research funders should demand truth in advertising when it comes to institutional commitments to academic freedom, Neal H. Hutchens and Frank Fernandez write.

A panel of federal judges is keeping in place a block on Florida’s Stop WOKE Act while appeals progress.

The university says, “Staff members who should have enforced university policies failed to do so.”

The faculty director of a California community college’s Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education says she questioned her college’s “orthodoxy” on such issues. She says her work was impeded and her contract isn’t being renewed.

Several faculty leaders from Indiana University campuses wrote a letter opposing proposed state abortion legislation and defending a colleague. An IU official called it a “policy violation,” a new report reveals.

The Republican governors of Florida, Texas and Virginia are drastically reshaping higher education in their states—which some see as a precursor to the 2024 presidential race.