Educational Leadership

True learning can only happen on campuses where academic freedom is paramount — within and outside the classroom.

After a student protest, Jenny S. Martinez wrote a much-praised memo defending academic freedom. But that protest shows how complicated protecting free speech can be.

ANU chancellor Gareth Evans says the higher education sector supports the proposed code, subject to minor changes.

Australian universities have started rolling out a new code to protect free speech on campus

Claremont McKenna, the small, Southern California liberal-arts college, has punished seven students for their part in trying to shut down a speaking event last spring.

The undergraduates targeted Heather Mac Donald, a Manhattan Institute scholar who often focuses on law enforcement. She is most controversial for arguing that aggressive policing tactics pioneered by the NYPD in the 1990s saved thousands of black lives by reducing crime––and that  protest movements like Black Lives Matter are part of a “war on cops” that makes everyone, especially cops and black men, less safe.

The president, Claudine Gay, told the campus newspaper that she “should have had the presence of mind” to answer differently.

At the University of Chicago, Dr. Zimmer oversaw the "Chicago Principles" on free expression that was later adopted by dozens of institutions.

We need universities to step up, reaffirm their philosophical mission and ensure they’re places where ideas can be tested on their merits.

Vice-chancellor Michael Spence has welcomed the proposed strengthening of protections around free academic expression.

Universities should very rarely prevent controversial speakers from spreading their message.

If progressives are committed to protecting freedom of conscience and freedom of expression for women and minorities, then they need to protect free speech across the board.