Academic Freedom
Academic freedom is the promise that instructors or researchers can teach and express ideas without professional reproductions. It’s something that separates academe from other careers. Increasingly for many scholars, this promise feels at risk.
Read our news, opinion and advice about academic freedom in higher education.
Read our news, opinion and advice about academic freedom in higher education.
New Agenda
The advocacy group has found itself in a feud with scholars and others over how to defend academic freedom during the incoming Trump administration.
The Review | Opinion
Worrying about “wokeness” is nothing more than navel-gazing.
Accreditation
The president-elect and his allies have floated a sweeping vision for upending the way colleges are accredited. But firing the accreditors is easier said than done.
The Review | Essay
Bureaucrats are overcomplying with state DEI laws. Faculty must fight back.
Law & Policy
Stephen Miller, who was recently named deputy chief of staff for policy, has spent the last three years attacking colleges’ diversity-related efforts through America First Legal, a conservative law firm.
Academic Freedom
Faculty members at the University of North Texas fear their teaching and research on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion will be curtailed by their own university’s interpretation of a state law — and, in one college, they say it already has.
'Acting Like a Scaredy-Cat'
The Modern Language Association stopped a boycott, divest, and sanctions vote, fearing legal repercussions could mean financial loss. Critics say the group’s leaders caved to political censorship.
Decision 2024
The former president has promised to wield the executive branch more aggressively, including scrutinizing colleges.
The Review | Essay
The current debates about institutional speech miss the point.