National Free Speech News & Commentary

Why Republicans Are Targeting Professors' Job Security

May 11, 2023 1 min read

By Monica Potts
Five Thirty Eight

Excerpt: The GOP’s education culture wars have a new target: college professors.
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Medical School Cancels Forum Expected to Criticize Diversity Efforts

May 11, 2023 1 min read

By Scott Jaschik
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: The Medical College of Wisconsin cancelled a forum on the “uses and abuses” of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in medicine and science after students and faculty members complained that the forum was not based on science, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
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The Book-Bans Debate Has Finally Reached a Turning Point

May 10, 2023 1 min read

By Ronald Brownstein
The Atlantic

Excerpt: Across multiple fronts, Democrats and their allies are stiffening their resistance to a surge of Republican-led book bans.
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Commentary: A Tennessee teacher planned a Mother’s Day class. Then came the MAGA rage

May 09, 2023 1 min read

By Greg Sargent
The Washington Post

Excerpt: By now, it’s well understood that the right’s efforts to restrict classroom discussion are all about marginalizing LGBTQ people under the guise of protecting children. But they also harbor a less obvious aim: to convince parents that kids are under threat in the first place. That mild-mannered teacher over there? She just might be scheming to pervert, indoctrinate and snatch away childhood innocence.
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ACLU Executive Director speaks at second recent event on progressive free speech

ACLU Executive Director speaks at second recent event on progressive free speech

May 08, 2023 1 min read

by Olivia Sanchez, Daily Princetonian 

Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Anthony Romero ’87 discussed the importance of the First Amendment at the final Princeton Progressive Law Society (PPLS) event of the 2022-23 academic year.

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Statehouses’ Targeting of Diversity and Tenure Is Starting to Scare Away Faculty Job Candidates

Statehouses’ Targeting of Diversity and Tenure Is Starting to Scare Away Faculty Job Candidates

May 05, 2023 1 min read

by  Megan Zahneis, Chronicle of Higher Education

Recently proposed and passed legislation that targets tenure and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is having a chilling effect on the recruitment of faculty members and administrators in Florida and Texas, where some of the highest profile laws and bills of that type have been undertaken.

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