Results for academic freedom

  1. Harvard and New College of Florida Are Divesting Themselves From Disinformation and DEI https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/03/13/harvard-and-new-c…are-divesting-themselves-from-disinformation-and-dei-n715908
    The past few weeks has proven that the freedom of speech enshrined under the First Amendment is under assault by our government. … Technology and Social Change project is winding down — through an extended transition — because it does not have intellectual and academic … If government and academic institutions won’t act as a bulwark of the rapid erosion of fact-based discourse in the United States, who…
  2. Stanford Law Dean Defends Free Speech, Suspends 'Woke' DEI Administrator Who Led Disruption of Guest Speaker https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2023/03/23/stanford-law-dean…ei-administrator-who-led-disruption-of-guest-speaker-n720213
    environment can lead to creating and enforcing an institutional orthodoxy that is not only at odds with our core commitment to academic … freedom, but also that would create an echo chamber that ill prepares students to go out into and act as effective advocates in a…
  3. SFSU Releases Shocking Statement on Riley Gaines Assault https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/04/09/sfsu-releases-shocking-statement-on-riley-gaines-assault-n728683
    event🚨 “Dear SF State community,  Today, San Francisco State finds itself again at the center of a national discussion regarding freedom … 2023 Dear SF State community, Today, San Francisco State finds itself again at the center of a national discussion regarding freedom … Diversity promotes critical discussions, new understandings and enriches the academic experience.…
  4. Stop Rewarding Failure https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/04/19/stop-rewarding-failure-n733355
    We Reward Academic Stagnation Math is racist. … As the Freedom Foundation wrote on Tuesday, Biden’s nomination for Secretary of Labor, Julie Su, is the picture-perfect example of…
  5. Why Do UNC Professors Oppose Teaching the Constitution? https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/04/30/why-do-unc-professors-oppose-teaching-the-constitution-n739330
    The professors argue that the legislation would violate the university’s academic freedom and substitute ideological force-feeding … freedom is misguided. … Academic freedom is the freedom of scholars to pursue and disseminate knowledge without restriction or censorship.…
  6. Nearly 700 Professors Protest a Bill Requiring Students to Study the Constitution https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/04/30/nearly-700-profes…a-bill-requiring-students-to-study-the-constitution-n739144
    H.B. 96 violates core principles of academic freedom. … That investigation probed “shared governance, academic freedom, and institutional racism at UNC.” … Is the problem with public education a lack of freedom in the classroom? Or is it a lack of education?…
  7. Florida State Board of Education Bans LGBTQ+ Topics in Schools: Is It a Step Too Far? https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/04/23/florida-state-board-of…on-bans-lgbtq-topics-in-schools-is-it-a-step-too-far-n735690
    about sexual orientation or gender identity, unless it is part of a reproductive health course or explicitly required by state academic … has been met with criticism from LGBTQ+ advocates and the White House, with some calling it “dystopian” and an infringement on freedom … They believe that teachers should have the freedom to discuss important social issues, including LGBTQ+ topics, in an age-appropriate…
  8. WATCH: Bill Maher Presents 'Cojones Awards' for Outstanding Achievement in Fighting Against 'Woke' https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/04/22/watch-bill-maher…for-outstanding-achievement-in-fighting-against-woke-n735214
    the college Here’s Pollack, as transcribed by the Blaze: It is critical to our mission as a university to think deeply about freedom … Free expression and academic freedom are the bedrock not just of the university, but of democracy. … Take your time — but we won’t hold our freedom-of-speech-loving breath.…
  9. ISIS Speech: a modest strategy with much to be modest about https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/09/11/isis-speech-modest-strategy-much-modest-n50389
    We’ll also support Iraq’s efforts to stand up National Guard Units to help Sunni communities secure their own freedom from ISIL’s control … Kurds, academic experts and the Syrian opposition agree that Syrians, Turks (estimated to number3,000), and foreign fighters (especially…
  10. We may have reached Peak Feminism https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/03/may-reached-peak-feminism-n52999
    coordinator asking for clarification: When would I learn the specifics of these complaints, which, I pointed out, appeared to violate my academic … freedom?…
  11. CAIR Censorship Fails in Knoxville, Tennessee https://redstate.com/richardcameron/2014/10/04/cair-censorship-fails-knoxville-tennessee-n50639
    It’s rather ironic that the district’s  decision itself is the epitome of contradicting “open-minded academic discussion”.  ACT! … In partnership with Freedom X, one of many legal groups defending free speech, filed a legal action in Federal Court in August and … Bill Becker, president of Freedom X, commented that “This is a victory for free speech.…
  12. Global-Warmists Expecting Trump To Purge Government Science From the Web https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2016/12/13/global-warmists-expecting-trump-purge-government-science-web-n65008
    The academic world is bracing itself: Will that data remain available after his transition? Cue dramatic sting. … They may take our suite of climate change apps, but they’ll never take our FREEDOM to believe your mom’s SUV broke the whole planet … change, so I think it’s prudent for folks to download the science that’s easily available now, because you may have to file a [Freedom…
  13. My, My. The Reform Of University Tenure Is Certainly Getting Panties Wadded https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/01/14/my-my-the-reform-of-university-tenure-is-certainly-getting-panties-wadded-n66164
    “Tenure is important in its own right, in that it helps protect academic freedom, helps encourage cutting-edge research and helps faculty … The underlying assumption is that academic positions are unlimited. … In truth, academic positions are extraordinarily finite and they are zero sum.…
  14. SJWs Attack Betsy DeVos Because She Opposes Kangaroo Courts https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/01/09/sjws-attack-betsy-devos-opposes-kangaroo-courts-n65961
    sued over infringements of free speech and — HORROR — they have defended young men who have had their names slandered and their academic … These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience — the essential…
  15. How a University is Forcing Teachers to become Liberal Activists https://redstate.com/alecstates/2016/01/20/university-forcing-teachers-become-liberal-activists-n56159
    This class violates academic freedom both in its instruction and requirements. … Academic freedom is about giving students the ability to form their own ideas and to express positions different from their professors … This blatant violation of freedom of conscience flies in the face of academic freedom.…
  16. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Jan. 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/01/18/martin-luther-king-jr-jan-15-1929-april-4-1968-n56088
    To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience. … The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. … We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.…
  17. Smitten With Socialism https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2025/08/20/smitten-with-socialism-n2193009
    economic outcomes than command-and-control methods, I was persona non grata in the social studies department.Without a doubt, the academic … a joke.It seems strange that nearly 40 years after the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Eastern Europe gained freedom…
  18. School Choice Works, Every Time It's Tried https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/10/22/school-choice-works-every-time-its-tried-n2195363
     For example, a new report on Arkansas’ Education Freedom Accounts program has found “encouraging indicators on family satisfaction … Patrick Wolf, one of the authors of the report, “In our data on the second year of Arkansas’ EFA program, we saw promising student academic … If programs like Arkansas' Education Freedom Accounts can give that process a kick-start, then that's a good thing - and it's proving…
  19. Another Phony 'Conservative' Gets It All Wrong About Why Red States Are Winning in the Education Space https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/10/10/another-phony-con…t-why-red-states-are-winning-in-the-education-space-n2194940
    The schools provide clear accountability information to parents and give them more freedom to choose schools. …  Democrats do not believe in freedom: they believe in government control. How do you control people? … Any Californian who cherishes the freedom to make intentional educational choices for their children needs to fight this bill.…
  20. New: Young America's Foundation Seeks Title VI, IX Investigation https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/10/16/new-young-americas-foundation-seeks-title-vi-ix-investigation-n2195148
    And Davidson is far from the only "academic" institution indulging in this kind of discrimination.Read More: Got Racism? … And, in the process, restore the freedom of speech to our conservative students.…
  21. New: Federal Judge Declares Trump Admin's Deportation of Pro-Palestinian Protesters Unconstitutional https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/09/30/new-federal-judge-d…ation-of-pro-palestinian-protesors-unconstitutional-n2194572
    Rubio, in which the plaintiffs (several academic associations) challenged the Trump administration's removal of non-citizen pro-Palestinian … No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and non-citizens alike....Having … with purposeful aforethought, did so concert their actions and those of their two departments intentionally to chill the rights to freedom…
  22. Freshman Senator Josh Hawley Makes Waves in DC Over Appointment of Neomi Rao to DC Circuit https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2019/02/26/freshman-senator-jo…wley-makes-waves-dc-appointment-neomi-rao-dc-circuit-n101836
    I have read through your academic writings. … Namely, I have concerns about some statements in your academic writings:   In your law review note, A Backdoor to Policy Making: … plurality opinion “linked reproductive choices with the essential nature of the individual and emphasized the importance of the freedom…
  23. 'Concerned Graduates of West Point' Pen Letter Calling out 'Woke Sentiments' of the Famed Academy https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/06/28/concerned-gradua…ter-calling-out-woke-sentiments-of-the-famed-academy-n585637
    Civilian faculty members have introduced political indoctrination into academic instruction to include socialist ideology that runs … troubling have been instances of the Academy Staff requiring cadets to violate their religious beliefs contrary to the religious freedom … Academy that USMA betrays the purpose for which it was founded in 1802 – defense of our Constitution, and maintenance of individual freedom…
  24. Arizona Secures 'The Biggest School Choice Victory in U.S. History' https://redstate.com/carcand/2022/06/28/arizona-secures-the-biggest-school-choice-victory-in-u-s-history-n585353
    Shawnna Bolick, who voted for the bill, had this to say: “We blew the top for educational freedom last Friday when both chambers … Educational freedom wins! I have one thing to say: Governor DeSantis, Arizona is the best state for school choice, not Florida. … “We have no financial transparency and we have no academic transparency,” Democratic state Sen.…
  25. National Scholars Association Outlines a Plan to Ban and Defund 'DEI' in Public Education https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/06/23/national-scholars…nes-a-plan-to-ban-and-defund-dei-in-public-education-n582787
    Academic qualifications…are redefined to include “lived experience.” … Evidence is redefined to include “trauma-informed” opinions. … The definition of academic “success” in every discipline is redefined … freedom, and due process in institutional settings where these have been compromised.…