SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

Are Israeli Jewish soldiers racist because they do not rape Arab women?

U. of Ill. instructor fired over Catholic beliefs The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual sex is immoral. The professor, Ken Howell of Champaign, has taught at [...]

When the principles of academic freedom are codified as rights for students, an important and potentially contentious issue arises, which is whether such rights lend themselves to interpretation in a way that infringes on the authority of the instructor in the classroom. Clearly the teaching relationship is (and must be) an unequal one, since it [...]

At Bates, the topic of my lecture was “The intellectual tradition of the left is bankrupt and its hegemony at Bates is an abuse of academic freedom.” In a rare departure from the norm, I had been invited to Bates by the dean of the college, even though, as he informed me shortly after we [...]

The Wolfers and Bastardizing Academic Freedom by KC Johnson Posted by KC Johnson Academic freedom carries with it rights as well as responsibilities. The concept derives from the belief that academics, because of specialized training in their subject matter, have earned the right to teach their areas of expertise and to follow their research questions [...]

David Swindle is a friend of mine from Twitter. Both of us are in this social networking site’s authentic Pro-Israel ‘hood. Of course, David is also the Managing Editor of NewsReal Blog and the Associate Editor of FrontPage Magazine. He has honored me with an invitation to be a contributing blogger to the latter, a [...]

Jefferson v. Cuccinelli Does the Constitution really protect a right to “academic freedom”? By Dahlia Lithwick and Richard Schragger Last week the University of Virginia decided to fight a sweeping subpoena served upon the institution in late April. State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli subpoenaed documents in connection with five grants awarded to Michael Mann—a former [...]

Jonah Goldberg has a valuable new LA Times column with more thoughts on David Horowitz’s recent encounter with pro-jihad sentiment at UC San Diego.  We all reacted with disgust (though not surprise) at Jumanah Imad Albahri’s words, but how did her school’s administration take it?  Goldberg decided to find out:
I asked UCSD, via e-mail, whether [...]

Degenerate Israeli professors on the rampage.