http://chronicle.com/section/Academic-Freedom/10/ News :: Faculty :: Academic Freedom Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:03:40 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/126720/ http://chronicle.com/article/After-Loss-in-Court-Scholar/126720/ Karin N. Calvo-Goller's libel lawsuit stoked concerns about libel tourism and scholars' freedom to publish criticism. She answers her critics in a Chronicle interview.

]]> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/126599/ http://chronicle.com/article/French-Court-Finds-in-Favor-of/126599/ The editor, a professor at NYU, was sued in France, where the book's author has citizenship. The case drew widespread interest for its potentially chilling effect.

]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:12:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125873/ http://chronicle.com/article/Tenures-Place-in-Law-School/125873/ The debate centered on whether, and how, law schools could protect academic freedom without a tenure system.

]]> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:30:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125531/ http://chronicle.com/article/Audio-Does-Administrative/125531/ Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, talks about how university bureaucrats and their fear of litigation can hurt free speech.

]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:22:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/65451/ http://chronicle.com/article/Marquette-U-Professors/65451/ The university denies that the potential dean's sexual orientation was the reason for its reversal.

]]> Fri, 07 May 2010 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/65284/ http://chronicle.com/article/Dismissed-Professor-Sues/65284/ The professor accuses the college of defamation and breach of contract in her firing last year.

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/65011/ http://chronicle.com/article/Tariq-Ramadan-Gets-the/65011/ The European Muslim scholar fielded tough questions at an event in New York sponsored by groups that fought to have him allowed into the United States.

]]> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:35:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/49100/ http://chronicle.com/article/AAUP-Announces-Effort-to-Shore/49100/ The organization's campaign responds to recent federal-court decisions seen as eroding faculty members' speech rights.

]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/48942/ http://chronicle.com/article/Professors-Suspended-After-a/48942/ The campus police at Southwestern College, in California, are considering whether to charge some protesters who tried to reach the president's office.

]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/48792/ http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Right-to-Keep/48792/ A Stanford University professor is fighting an effort by tobacco-company lawyers to obtain the manuscript of his unfinished book.

]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/48745/ http://chronicle.com/article/Professor-Accuses-Naval/48745/ Bruce E. Fleming says in a federal complaint that his criticism of the academy's minority admissions policies cost him a pay increase.

]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/48610/ http://chronicle.com/article/Court-Dismisses/48610/ The Ohio court said it could not pass judgment on the matter without unconstitutionally intruding into the Baptist college's religious affairs.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:58:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/47916/ http://chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Harassment-Complaint/47916/ An anthropologist at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville says her colleagues turned against her and she lost her position after she complained of sexual harassment by a popular male lecturer. But there's more to the case.

]]> Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/47362/ http://chronicle.com/article/Judge-Hands-Ward-Churchill-an/47362/ A state court judge not only denied the controversial professor everything he had sought in his lawsuit against the University of Colorado but also negated the jury's verdict that campus officials had violated his First Amendment rights by firing him in response to statements he had made.

]]> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/44498/ http://chronicle.com/article/Under-Multiple-Assaults/44498/ Several trends are converging to threaten scholars' traditional rights, said presenters at a recent national conference of professors.

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/44470/ http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Freedom-Comes-Under/44470/ INTERNAL CONFLICTS: Many faculty members at law-school clinics feel pressure from within their institutions not to take on certain controversial cases.

]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/47320/ http://chronicle.com/article/AAUP-Says-Its-Rebounding/47320/ The organization says it's on firmer financial footing now and confident of the value it offers to members. Also at its meeting this weekend, it placed four institutions on its censure list.

]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/47318/ http://chronicle.com/article/US-Faculty-Members-Feel-a/47318/ Compared with their peers in many other nations, faculty members at four-year colleges in the United States stand out in their insularity from the international academic community and their sense of a lack of power over their institutions' leadership and budgets.

]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/47260/ http://chronicle.com/article/Public-Scholar-Engages/47260/ Having encouraged its faculty members to become more publicly engaged, the institution is now involved in a controversy over the dismissal of a high-profile black professor.

]]> Mon, 18 May 2009 05:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/47225/ http://chronicle.com/article/Head-of-Anti-Defamation-League/47225/ The Jewish advocacy group's representative met with campus officials nd urged them to investigate a professor for academic misconduct after he e-mailed students with harsh criticism of Israel's war in Gaza.

]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/625/ http://chronicle.com/article/Google-E-Mail-Service-Inspires/625/ An arbitrator convened a hearing this week to consider a grievance filed by the faculty association of a university in Ontario. The group fears professors' messages will not be secure once they cross the border.

]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/268/ http://chronicle.com/article/Brandeis-Professor-in-Trouble/268/ The university violated the academic freedom of a professor of politics, a faculty panel said on Thursday, when it penalized him after students complained that he made racist remarks during a lecture.

]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/205/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Academic-Freedom-Is-a/205/ Although the federal courts have never accorded faculty members any special rights under the First Amendment, academic freedom should still be respected as a practical reality, argues William E. Thro, solicitor general of Virginia.

]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/157/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Labor-Union-Plants-a-Flag/157/ One of academe's largest labor unions, the American Federation of Teachers, has just released its first comprehensive statement on academic freedom.

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