…debate, about matters big and small, without fearing official censorship or the prospect of disciplinary action. But UF’s policy revision is also part of a larger trend that we are…

…chamber. Let’s take a look at a few of the more notable trends. Disinvitation Season The nation took notice of censorship on campus this spring when a number of prominent…

When student activists tried to block some commencement speakers this year, conservatives generally denounced these efforts as censorship. Sure, these protesters were mostly aligned with the campus left, a group…

…said, is a form of censorship that amounts to McCarthyism. Campus liberals are “trying to repress conservative ideas,” particularly in the Ivy League, he said. Shifting from gently reproving to…

…and  teaches them  “the wisdom of laughing at ourselves, and not taking the self too seriously.”   The term “bullying” is increasingly being used as an  excuse  for censorship of speech…

…those of us battling on the front lines. ________________________________________ Greg Lukianoff is the president of FIRE and the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate….

…while avoiding actual abridgements of speech, a compromise between censorship and laissez-faire. Yet the institutionalization of such warnings clearly promotes the idea that student sensitivities must be coddled and protected–even…

…silenced at Harvard, she can only think of one person, a single conservative octogenarian. Her call for “censorship” of conservative views on campus is at this point almost wholly unnecessary,…

…Censorship I’ve been a First Amendment and academic freedom lawyer since the beginning of a career that started during the heyday of student protests against the Vietnam War (back then…

Karen Straughan, a soft-spoken Canadian activist, gave a controversial speech last night at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her topic was, “Are Men Obsolete? Feminism, Free Speech and the Censorship of…

…about the threats IRB’s pose to research that challenges conventional wisdom–that is, IRB’s can provide a mechanism for colleges and universities to exercise editorial control, even censorship, over research whose…

…of either retiring or staying on but not teaching the course. Thanks to the efforts of a coalition of free speech groups, including the National Coalition Against Censorship and the…

…some greater good or would, alternatively, conjure some explanation of why this particular act of censorship isn’t really a violation of the principle. But what we should expect of college…

…if not most, of Hamilton’s right-of-center students already practice in the classroom a degree of self-censorship that responsible leadership should, at the very least, find disconcerting. One cannot have difficult…

…absolutely no censorship of any person or viewpoint. In fact, the question I asked on one day in 2010 had nothing to do with higher education at all. I merely…

…censorship of “unwelcome” speech, they’re usually demanding censorship of the speech that they find unwelcome. They usually seek to silence their political or ideological opponents, not their friends—all in the…

…of censorial sentences hidden like trace gold amidst tons of ferrite – will effectively establish a culture of censorship and self-censorship on our nation’s campuses, where only officially-approved attitudes will…

…could host sessions focusing on the challenges on campus and how students can fight back against censorship and attempts to clamp down on independent thought. Armed with the tools necessary…

…concerns about censorship and academic freedom, with even the clichéd allusion to Galileo.  The statement indirectly characterizes the stepping exercise as “controversial material [that] might unintentionally” offend students, and such…

…                 *** Commitment to the principles of academic freedom was tested when new forces of politically correct censorship and thought control began to…

…name or would likely recognize the references in The People’s Cube.  They’ve been taught that the evils of Communism–the censorship, the show trials, the gulags–were largely part of a “red scare.”…

…Amendment-protected speech do not adequately fix these problems and will not prevent censorship in practice.  See Nitzberg v. Parks (1975) and Gentile v. State Bar (1991).   Earlier, a school…