Wesleyan University’s campus was abuzz last week after student protesters, demanding divestment from the “U.S.–Israeli Empire,” occupied an administrative building and refused to leave until the police arrived and threatened arrest. This was a...
“SJP’s decision to hold this event shows a complete disregard for basic human decency, but UMD is a public university and therefore subject to the First Amendment, which protects a broad range of speech,...
How much is free speech worth? According to one donor, $100 million. Last week, the University of Chicago received a $100 million donation in support of free speech efforts on campus. The gift supports the Forum for Free Inquiry...
I am deeply grateful to the Law & Liberty editors for organizing this Forum on my essay urging the restoration of genuinely higher learning in America’s universities, especially liberal education as a civic education. I am indebted to...
Fall is a wonderful time at Furman University. Friends are reuniting after a summer apart. The mall is teeming with football tailgates. The leaves are just beginning to turn. All on one of the...
It started in 2017, before which many Purdue graduates went their entire academic career having never set foot in a literature or history class, Dr. Melinda Zook recalls. Now, they all do.
Johns Hopkins University recently became one of the latest campuses to embrace institutional neutrality. However, there is more work ahead to implement this, according to a higher education reform group.
As the anti-Israel student protests that roiled college campuses in the spring have started up again this fall, scores of American universities are hoping to temper the political climate by embracing a policy known...
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