To fulfill Its democratic mission, higher ed must better support faculty civic engagement too.

To fulfill Its democratic mission, higher ed must better support faculty civic engagement too.

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Bard College’s Acting President Jonathan Becker appeared on the SpeechMatters podcast to discuss the ongoing struggle for youth voting rights in the United States. They addressed a range of issues,…

“In the United States, freedom of speech belongs to the people,” U.S. District Judge Noël Wise said in her decision. “It is not the government’s to take.”

A leading House Democrat on Tuesday called for an investigation into new allegations that the administration forced universities it deemed politically incorrect into settling cases.

Inside Higher Ed spoke with legal experts, scholars and PR specialists about what colleges need to consider in responses to the administration’s latest attempt to reform higher ed.

The AAUP’s suits against Texas A&M and Texas Tech could bring questions about academic freedom to the “unpredictable” Fifth Circuit, which has yet to weigh in on the issue.

The sixth annual College Free Speech Rankings show a continued decline in support for free speech among all students, but particularly conservatives.

The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think…

Critics say the White House proposal could curtail studies of achievement gaps and the long-term research that led to the science of reading

New standards for accreditation would protect campus speech more robustly than current law does.

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Critics have castigated the measure, arguing it ignores average degree completion times and creates unnecessary burdens for international students.

Comm scholar Dan Lane named UC fellow for research on AI and civic engagement

A Trump-appointed judge ruled against Gov. Ron DeSantis' "Stop WOKE Act," leaving Florida’s college speech limits blocked as a Supreme Court appeal looms.

Florida International University is penalizing seven students for a silent protest they held in March, in which they stood in the audience of a campus event wearing shirts reading, “ICE OFF FIU,”…

The Youth250 co-founder and first Gen Z board member of Points of Light says young people can’t save democracy alone, and shouldn’t have to.

The changes comply with a new state law passed in reaction to a handful of professors' critical comments on Charlie Kirk after his assassination.

The new law took effect immediately and came after legislators overrode a veto from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.

The politically created academic centers have drawn fierce criticism from faculty, who say they expand state intrusion into higher education.

The new staff members will focus on creating, explaining and enforcing college speech policies following years of escalating campus protest activity.

Colleges and universities amplify the impacts of anti-DEI laws through the processes they use to (over-)comply with them.

Misunderstanding of the First Amendment and growing despair over government interference in speech threaten higher education and democracy.

The next critical step for institutional neutrality policies is to set clear, written rules on who is—and isn’t—permitted to speak on behalf of the institution.