News About our Efforts to Protect Faculty Speech

Ozzie Guillen, Free Speech and the Case of Loretta Capeheart. The Nation. By Dave Zirin. April 12, 2012.

Garcetti Issue Comes Up Again, This Time in Seventh Circuit Case at Northeastern Illinois University. Moral Liberal. August 16, 2011.

The Footnote Judges Ignore. Inside Higher Ed. By Scott Jaschik. August 15, 2011. News item.

U.S. Appeals Court to Weigh the Speech Rights of Public-College Faculty Members. The Chronicle of Higher Education. By Peter Schmidt. August 12, 2011. News item.

Free to Speak Out. Inside Higher Ed. By Scott Jaschik. April 7, 2011. News item.

Appeals Court Hands Big Win to Advocates of Free Faculty Speech in Ruling on Pundit-Professor. The Chronicle of Higher Education. By Peter Schmidt. April 6, 2011. News item.

UNC faculty Backs Policy Change.  The Daily Tar Heel. By Caroline Corrigan. November 16, 2010. News item.

Uncertain First Amendment Rights. Inside Higher Ed.  By Scott Jaschik. November 15, 2010. News item. 

U.S. Court Ducks Academic-Freedom Debate in Ruling Against California Professor. Chronicle of Higher Education. By Peter Schmidt. November 12, 2010. News item.

To Protect Academic Freedom, Look Beyond the First Amendment. Chronicle of Higher Education. By Joan DelFattore. October 31, 2010. Commentary.

Professors Try to Shore Up Speech Protections Undermined by Courts. The Chronicle of Higher Education. By Peter Schmidt. June 21, 2010.  News item.

Faculty free speech upheld.  The Badger Herald. By Carolyn Briggs. April 13, 2010. News item.

Academic-Freedom Advocates Are Handed a Win in Ohio Ruling. Chronicle of Higher Education. March 22, 2010. News item.

Evaporating First Amendment?  Inside Higher Ed. By Scott Jaschik. March 18, 2010. News item.

Court Denies Conservative Pundit-Professor's Bias Claim Against University. The Chronicle of Higher Education. By Peter Schmidt. March 17, 2010. News item.

AAUP campaign calls for faculty to “speak up” for rights.  Massachusetts Daily Collegian. By Bobby Hitt. February 11, 2010. News item.

Halting New Threats To Academic Freedom. AAUP Voice. January 2010. News Item. The AAUP Voice is the official newsletter of the University of Delaware Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

Come to the Forum on Academic Freedom. AAUP Voice. January 2010. News Item about event. The AAUP Voice is the official newsletter of the University of Delaware Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

Faculty Speech Rights Rejected . Inside Higher Ed. By Scott Jaschik.  December 23, 2009. News item.

Garcetti in Higher Education? Not So Fast.  Workplace Prof Blog.  December 22, 2009. Legal blog on labor law issues.

First Amendment in the Classroom .  Inside Higher Ed. By Scott Jaschik.  December 16, 2009. News item.

Professors speak up . The Daily Texan. By Rebecca Counts. November 17, 2009.  Op/Ed.

Legal Threats to Academic Freedom and Shared Governance in Higher Education . By Rachel Levinson. November 13, 2009. This video presentation is co-sponsored by the University of California Davis Academic Senate, the UCD Senate Committee on Academic Freedom, the AAUP, and the Davis Faculty Association.

AAUP Launches Action Campaign to Protect Academic Freedom. November 10, 2009. In the face of unprecedented threats to academic freedom at public colleges and universities, the AAUP has launched an awareness and action campaign called "Speak Up, Speak Out: Protect the Faculty Voice."  Download this press release as a .pdf. 

Governance Speech No Longer Protected in Public Universities? May 23, 2009. Marc Bousquet writes about the Hong case and AAUP’s role in protecting academic freedom in his blog, "How the University Works."