After a tumultuous year for free speech on campus, Higher Ed Now asks Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) to share his impression on campus speech controversies. From protests to microaggressions, he describes the campus culture that fosters censorship and threatens academic freedom and civil liberties for students and faculty.
College students and graduates have more faith than the public in higher education’s ability to overcome rising costs, workforce misalignment and political polarization, according to a new study. Gallup and the nonprofit Lumina Foundation reported this week that the share of surveyed adults expressing “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in universities dropped from […]
Mohsen Mahdawi arrived for an interview with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, VT., on April 14 of last year with dreams of becoming an American citizen. Instead, he left in handcuffs. A Palestinian refugee and green-card holder, Mahdawi has lived in the U.S. since 2014. As a Columbia University student, […]
Today, the Committee on Postsecondary Education of the Oklahoma House of Representatives considered legislation, House Bill 3129, which would strengthen free speech protections on public college and university campuses by mandating that all security fees must be levied in a content-neutral manner. Steven McGuire, ACTA’s Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, submitted written testimony. HB […]
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