A Tower of Babel, Not a Marketplace of Ideas
The proliferation of identity politics on our campuses is destroying intellectual vitality.
The First Amendment Applies to Students, Too
Feb 21, 2014 ·
Jenna A. Robinson and Tami Fitzgerald
N.C. student groups have been undermined by policies that encroach on free speech and freedom of association.
A Decade of Reform (Proposals, That Is)
Jan 1, 2014 ·
Jane S. Shaw
The ideas we proposed over the past ten years may be implemented in the next ten.
Academic Freedom
Apr 27, 2009 ·
Donald Downs
Today’s university is rife with competing claims about academic freedom. Although it is similar to the freedom of speech that all Americans enjoy, academic freedom has developed into a more specific guarantee for scholars and teachers. This new paper by Donald Downs, professor of political science, law, and journalism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, explains what is meant by the term and to whom it applies.
How Much Free Speech?
Oct 20, 2008 ·
Jane S. Shaw
Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE) says that UNC-CH is infringing on the rights of students and faculty to express themselves.
Thought Police Steal a Victory from UNC-Chapel Hill
Apr 7, 2004 ·
Jon Sanders
Free speech had already carried the day when a UNC-Chapel Hill instructor attacked a student by name in a classwide email. So why get the feds involved?
Office for Civil Rights Trumpets Students’ Rights Over College Codes
Aug 18, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
A resounding affirmation of free-speech rights on college campuses was recently made by the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education.
Meanwhile, free expression at NC State is ‘too much’
Feb 28, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
Chancellor Marye Anne Fox of North Carolina State University issued a statement on tolerance this week. Published in Technician, N.C. State’s official student newspaper, Fox wrote that “Several students have told me about highly offensive, hurtful and disrespectful graffiti that appeared on the wall of our Free Expression Tunnel on Monday night.” Three sentences later she wrote, “The offensive graffiti has been removed, and I have asked our Campus Police to investigate this incident.”
Defense of free expression and inquiry at UNC-CH not thorough enough
Feb 21, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
“I have been proud,” announced Chancellor James Moeser of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in his “State of the University” speech this past September, “to speak for the entire community in defending our fundamental rights as Americans from any who would seek to limit the scope of free expression and inquiry. In the past 12 months, UNC has shown the world what it is to be a great, free, American public university.”
AAUP committee will work to ensure academic freedom — of the left
Oct 4, 2002 ·
Jon Sanders
If the announced concerns of the American Association of University Professors’ special committee to study academic freedom in the wake of Sept. 11 are any indication, look for more rarefied hand-wringing over the academic left’s travails and cricket-chirruping silence over others’.