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Wellesley profs want control over speaker invitations
A group of Wellesley College professors recently sent a campus-wide email arguing that bringing controversial sp…
By Mazelit Airaksinen 
Mar 22, 2017
Student assaults basketball player for wearing hair braids
A Hampshire College student is facing charges after allegedly assaulting a female basketball player from another…
By Kassy Dillon 
Mar 20, 2017
The Weekly Roundup: Inclusiveness through exclusion
Monday 13 March …
By Peter Fricke 
Mar 20, 2017
REPORT: Wealthiest colleges are worst free speech offenders
A new study has found that the colleges most prone to disinviting conservative speakers and stifling open debate…
By Mazelit Airaksinen 
Mar 17, 2017
Pitzer profs conspire to 'shut...down' conservative newspaper
Several faculty members at Pitzer College recently discussed launching an “investigation” of a stude…
By Elliot Dordick 
Mar 17, 2017
Anti-Semitic flyers attacking 'Jewish privilege' appear at UIC
The anonymous flyers assert that Jews are disproportionately represented among "the 1%," implying that they should …
By Adam Sabes 
Mar 17, 2017
REPORT: BDS among 'greatest threats to academic freedom' today
“One of the greatest threats to academic freedom in the United States today is the Boycott, Divestment, an…
By Katherine  Zehnder 
Mar 16, 2017
UW-Madison "wins" free speech "Bracket of Shame"
This is one championship no university wants to win. Casey Mattox, the director of the Center for Academ…
By Sterling Beard 
Mar 15, 2017
Pro-lifers demand Kutztown stop stifling their speech
A pro-life group is challenging Kutztown University after employees repeatedly scrubbed away messages that a stu…
By Kassy Dillon 
Mar 14, 2017
Faculty guide: Make class a 'safe space' with 'oops/ouch' method
The guide also recommends intervening to prevent microaggressions in the classroom, but cautions professors against…
By Amber Athey 
Mar 14, 2017
Pitzer prez blames factual reporting for 'hate speech'
The president of Pitzer College is upset that a student publication accurately reported inflammatory statements …
  The Claremont Independent 
Mar 13, 2017
UCLA creates 'Immigration Advisory Council' in response to EO
University of California, Los Angeles Chancellor Gene Block announced Wednesday that a new council will advise h…
By Kathryn Arnold 
Mar 13, 2017
The Weekly Roundup: Newspeak sure is confusing...
Monday 6 March S…
By Peter Fricke 
Mar 13, 2017
Cal State 'activism labs' teach students new protest tactics
The California State University, San Marcos Cross-Cultural Center recently hosted the first of two “Activi…
By Nathan Apodaca 
Mar 11, 2017
UCLA still targeting conservative prof's free speech course
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has repeatedly slashed enrollment for a conservative professor&…
By Kathryn Arnold 
Mar 10, 2017
Profs lash out at Santa Clara for approving TPUSA chapter
SCU's Vice Provost overturned the Senate's decision after concluding that the TPUSA group was rejected based on its…
By Amber Athey 
Mar 9, 2017
UC proposes 'free speech deans' to prevent disruptive conduct
The University of Chicago could soon implement new policies that would severely limit “those engaged in di…
By Anthony Gockowski 
Mar 9, 2017
Cornell students: security fees used to silence conservatives
Conservative groups are questioning Cornell University’s commitment to free speech, saying they’ve had to pay signi…
By Amber Athey 
Mar 8, 2017
Pitzer College RA tells white people not to wear hoop earrings
A wall on the side of a Pitzer College dormitory devoted to unmoderated free speech through art (colloquially na…
  The Claremont Independent 
Mar 7, 2017
UT instructors meet students in bars to avoid campus carry
Some University of Texas professors have taken to holding office hours at a gun-free bar on campus in order circumv…
By Lauren Cooley 
Mar 7, 2017