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Opinion: Should academic departments make political statements?

A few weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College posted a statement on its website supporting Palestinian resistance to ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Was an Instructor’s Firing a Violation of Academic Freedom? Or an Example of ‘Academic Responsibility’?

Organizations and scholars concerned with academic freedom are raising the alarm over the firing of a Texas A&M University instructor who was dismissed on Tuesday after videos of a classroom exchange ...
Columbia Daily Spectator

Faculty insert AAUP academic freedom statement into class syllabi

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 ...
Inside Higher Ed

It’s Been More Than 50 Years Since the AAUP Revised Its Statement on Academic Freedom

I am a lifetime member of the American Association of University Professors. It is an organization that has done remarkable work in defending academic freedom for people who teach in this nation’s ...
Brandeis University

Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity

an incomplete understanding of what constitutes plagiarism and/or inappropriate collaboration; and/or anxiety and stress (often from trying to complete an assignment right before a deadline). To ...