Academic Freedom

While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?”

The Florida Board of Governors voted to remove hundreds of classes, many touching on race and gender, from general education offerings at all 12 state universities.

A faculty member says the university suspended him from teaching for a lecture that mentioned President Trump and criticized Louisiana governor Jeff Landry’s public calls to punish a colleague over similar allegations.

Protecting professors from university discipline for their extramural speech is necessary, but no longer sufficient, Austin Sarat writes.

A team of scholars has worked since November to archive resources that are valuable to themselves and the public—just in case they were taken down.