A cademic freedom is a contested category these days, its meanings invoked on multiple fronts to criticize and defend the enterprise of higher education. And not for the first time. From its earliest ...

P rinciples of academic freedom and diversity, equity, and inclusion will sometimes (perhaps increasingly often) collide, as Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder have argued recently in these pages.

The innovative strength of a society depends on the level of academic freedom. An international team has now demonstrated this relationship. The researchers analyzed patent applications and patent ...

With their wealth, exclusivity and global clout, American universities are an easy target for populist resentment. For Americans frustrated by inequality and cultural alienation, there may be a ...

Some Columbia professors have inserted a statement supporting academic freedom into their fall 2025 class syllabi in light of the University’s July 23 $221 million deal with President Donald Trump’s ...

The UNC Systems’ Committee on University Governance gave an initial nod Wednesday to a formal definition for academic freedom. “Academic freedom as a concept is included in our code and has been for ...

A new UNC System definition of “academic freedom” received unanimous approval from the system’s Board of Governors university governance committee on Wednesday, impacting the state’s 17 public ...

Defending academic freedom is an all-hands-on-deck emergency. From the current administration’s scrutiny of (and executive orders related to) higher education, to state legislative overreach and ...

“Don’t tread on our academic freedom!” shouts Harvard while suing Trump to prove the point. “Frankly my dears, I don’t give a damn,” replies Trump, while slashing ever more federal dollars to force ...

The UNC Board of Governors is moving forward on adopting a system-wide definition of academic freedom. According to System officials the proposal "fills out a gap" in UNC BOG policies, which have long ...

State legislatures restricting what faculty can teach about race or gender — banning discussions on transgender and nonbinary identities. Public health scholars facing political retaliation for ...

We take for granted that political dialogue depends upon shared knowledge, yet we rarely consider the role of scholarship in providing such knowledge and how the law both facilitates and restricts it.