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Harvard faculty organize amid anxiety university will capitulate to Trump

Harvard weighs costs of standing up to president as other elite schools, such as Princeton, signal they won’t concede

The Guardian - US

Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing university professors’ influence. Here's how faculty shape their universities.

Faculty senates have long played a key role in developing curriculum and protecting open inquiry. State leaders have also accused them of liberal indoctrination.

The Texas Tribune

5 growing threats to academic freedom

The ability to teach and conduct research free from political interference is the cornerstone of higher education and its contribution to the public good. Academic freedom, however, has become increasingly threatened.

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State laws threaten to erode academic freedom in US higher education

Over the past few years, Republican state lawmakers have introduced more than 150 bills in 35 states that seek to curb academic freedom on campus. Twenty-one of these bills have been signed into law.

The Conversation

Report finds Hamline University violated professor’s academic freedom in Islamic art controversy

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Hamline University’s response to a Muslim student’s art class complaint last fall violated the professor’s academic freedom, according to a new report by the American Association of University Professors.

Pioneer Press

"Egregious Violations of Academic Freedom at Collin College"

A report from the American Association of University Professors, apropos the incidents that I've blogged about before (generally relying on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's coverage): Today, the AAUP published an investigative report concerning the Collin College administration's summary termination of the services of professors Lora Burnett, Suzanne…

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