BY MICHEL DEGRAFF When “Collective Academic Freedom” Becomes a Pretext for Violating Academic Freedom and Free Speech Across the country, faculty members, myself included, are suffering repression …

BY OU-AAUP Two recent incidents put the University of Oklahoma (OU) in the forefront of national and international news. On November 22, ICE detained Vahid Abedini, Professor of Iranian Studies at …

When students and professors alike advocate for just causes, they are typically celebrated. Not so in the case of Palestine. This doc examines why.

Newport, Oregon is using public pressure and legal avenues to make the state’s sanctuary law a reality in practice.

In her book The Right to Learn, Valerie Johnson dives into the years-long erosion of academic freedom in red states and how universities must resist it.

BY DANIEL SEGAL It is the rare faculty member who today is unaware of the significant increase in attacks on speech rights and academic freedom protections on U.S. campuses over the past two years.…

BY BILL MULLEN Can you identify yourself and explain what happened at Texas State? My name is Tom Alter. Until being recently fired in violation of my free speech rights, I was a tenured associate …

Our session will put two keywords in relation that are essential to the fight ahead in higher education and beyond: study and struggle.

Dear Academic Supporter of Dr. Tom Alter, Tom Alter is undertaking a formal appeal of his firing from Texas State University, San Marcos. On November 10, a subcommittee of the Texas State University...

FILMMAKER JENNIFER RUTH IN ATTENDANCEUniversities are meant to be places where ideas can be argued without fear. Yet as Israel’s war on Gaza grinds on, that ideal feels increasingly fragile. Across the United States, administrators discipline students for protest, lawmakers threaten faculty, and new visa restrictions target Palestinian students. These are reminders that the space for dissent is narrowing fast,The Palestine Exception looks squarely at this crisis of academic freedom. Through archival footage and candid interviews with scholars including Judith Butler, the film follows students and professors as they demand a ceasefire and divestment from companies tied to Israel. Their movement, already the largest U.S. anti-war uprising since the 1970s, meets a swift backlash, exposing what activists call the “Palestine exception,” where speech and assembly rights end the moment Israel is named.The film resonates with today’s headlines while telling a story of campuses as both refuge and battleground, of personal and collective histories colliding, and of the stubborn insistence that a university remain a place for truth-telling, even when power wants silence.USA. 2025Directed by Jan Haaken & Jennifer Ruth,In English.Running time 70 min.Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Presented with

The legacy of this pivotal event in Black history continues to echo across countries and generations with its call for unity

Opening the “Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination” series, this panel centers Palestine in our ongoing collective effort to understand and respond to the right-wing attack on the higher education s...

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In this article, we examine the concept of scholasticide, its historical evolution, and its contemporary relevance with specific reference to Palestine. Focusing on Israel’s attempt to annihilate h...

Speak Out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the Fight for Free Speech – YouTube, Thu Nov 6, 2025 - The U.S. is experiencing one of the largest waves of political repression in its history. Academics,...

Officials at the University of Texas at Austin blocked the Graduate Student Assembly from considering two resolutions against Texas state laws last week, arguing that the student-run body must follow ...

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