National Free Speech News & Commentary

By Josh Moody
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: A visiting history professor at New College of Florida who criticized NCF’s Board of Trustees and interim president—as well as Governor Ron DeSantis’s efforts to reshape higher education in the state—is out after the administration decided not to renew his contract, Miami New Times reported.

By Ryan Quinn
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: The reports that the University of North Carolina School of Medicine rejected its diversity, equity and inclusion task force’s recommendations also were, according to new statements from the university, exaggerated. Perhaps greatly.

By The Editorial Board
Wall Street Journal Opinion

Excerpt: Bureaucracies pushing the political DEI agenda—diversity, equity and inclusion—have proliferated in higher education, becoming speech censors and racial hiring enforcers. The bullying has courted a needed backlash, and the latest comes from Texas.

By Sydney Shuler
Daily Progress

Excerpt: The University of Virginia already tracks the gender and race of its students, but some of the newest members on the school’s governing body want to know why it isn’t tracking their religious and political affiliations as well.

By Amanda Nordstrom
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Excerpt: Graduation time used to be known as “disinvitation season” around FIRE’s offices, as we prepared for the yearly increase in demands by faculty members and students to revoke the invitations of guest speakers — often commencement and keynote speakers — because of something the speaker did, said, or believes.

By Michelle Bocanegra
Gothamist

Excerpt: Faculty at the CUNY School of Law are calling on the university’s administration to retract a statement characterizing a student’s graduation address as “hate speech,” following criticism of her speech as antisemitic.