Is Speech Free at Your University?
As noted by theFire.org, Public universities are bound by the First Amendment. Their policies and practices must protect, and never …
Latest on the First Amendment on Campus
Free speech on college campuses is in the news again—from complaints from “right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro [who] is pushing back …
What You Think Is Not Necessarily What I Need To Think
Intellectual Freedom means just that, the freedom to use our intellects to learn and think about what we want to …
Just a Few of Us Together Can Make a Difference
AFCON (Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska) is one of those small groups Margaret Mead was talking about in her quote …
Fireworks and Freedom
A version of this blog ran in July 2015. On this July 4th, I’m reminded most of the First Amendment …
Protecting Scholarship
The work of NCTE’s Intellectual Freedom Center is visible, more often than not, for defense of challenged books in K-12 …
The Right To Know
Put away that umbrella or snow shovel, because this week is Sunshine Week! Sunshine Week has a goal for governments …
Who Gets to Tell What History?
This month, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal passed a law criminalizing public discussion of Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes. Hard …
Academic Freedom Principles in Practice
This blog is written by David Moshman. Critiques of censorship and indoctrination are unlikely to be taken seriously if they …
Academic Freedom
What is literacy? What is learning? What is inquiry? Not much without academic freedom. Academic freedom is the foundation of …