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What Universities Should Do After Rejecting Trump’s Compact
November 4, 2025Americans Praise Higher Ed Research, But Remain Concerned about Campus Culture
October 25, 2025Trump’s Higher Ed “Compact” Meets Resistance—and Opportunity?
October 15, 2025Tenure is About Labor Dynamics, Not Only Academic Freedom.
October 14, 2025How much would students pay to avoid ideological opposition on campus?
October 4, 2025When University Classrooms Become Political Battlegrounds
September 24, 2025When Authoritarianism Meets the Academy
September 11, 2025Public Perception of U.S. Higher Ed Is Turning Around
July 21, 2025Yes, we can still criticize the academy in the Trump era.
July 7, 2025As the DOJ questions journals, how can we reasonably promote “competing viewpoints” in science?
April 28, 2025Open Inquiry on Campuses Is Being Critically Compromised
March 27, 2025The U.S. Ranks #85 on the 2025 Academic Freedom Index. Is anti-pluralistic government to blame?
March 27, 2025The influential University of California system ends the use of DEI statements in faculty hiring.
March 20, 2025What You Might Have Missed in That New Survey of College Presidents
February 26, 2025Is academic freedom the baby we’re throwing out with DEI political litmus tests?
February 4, 2025“An Atmosphere of Fear”
January 30, 2025Will Academic Freedom and Expression Improve in 2025?
January 17, 2025Self-Censorship by Faculty Isn’t Just for Conservatives Anymore.
November 14, 2024Threats to Open Inquiry on Campus May Be Subtle
September 7, 2024Self-Censorship in the Classroom Harms Student Learning. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
May 11, 2023How Publishing Incentives Shape Scientific Knowledge Production
October 26, 2021The Rising Tide of Institutional Statement Neutrality: How Universities Are Rethinking Institutional Speech
March 11, 2025The Universal Problem of Campus Expression
September 23, 20242022 Campus Expression Survey Report
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