Joan W. Scott

The Hamline case does not illustrate a tension between diversity and academic freedom.

Three new studies address academic freedom. One succeeds.

What the recent debates over presentism get wrong.

The ability to express one’s opinion, no matter how unfounded or false, has become the test of free speech. Knowledge is the casualty.

On March 15, 2004, the French government passed a law that banned the wearing of “conspicuous signs” of religious affiliation in public schools. Those were defined as “signs such as a large cross, a veil, or a skullcap. Not regarded as signs indicating religious affiliation are discreet signs,…

The Board of Regents of the University of California thrust the question of who governs colleges and universities into the limelight in July 1995 when a slim majority of its members voted -- against the advice of the university’s president, its nine chancellors, and top faculty representatives --…

Several months ago, the committee appointed by the New York State Department of Education to develop a new social-studies curriculum for elementary and secondary students issued its report, “One Nation, Many Peoples: A Declaration of Cultural Interdependence.” I was not surprised at the controversy…