An employee at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis was (sort of) absolved this month after being reprimanded for reading a book about the history of the Ku Klux Klan during a break from his janitorial work last November.
The employee, Keith Sampson (also a student at the university), apparently hit a nerve with coworkers when they noticed […]
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A student at Valdosta State University in Georgia, expelled last year for posting activist flyers on Facebook, says he still doesn’t understand why the administration took such extreme action against him.
The student, Hayden Barnes, was attempting to raise awareness about a new parking garage development being built on campus when he posted the flyer in […]
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Friday afternoon I had the privilege of talking with Gene Policinski, executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. We discussed a range of issues relating to free speech on college campuses - from the power of the student press to the limits imposed by campus speech codes.
Mr. Policinski recently wrote a column […]
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Typically when you hear about a college newspaper being threatened with censorship, budget cuts or a publication freeze, the university administration is the agent pulling the plug. Not so at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where the student governing board ordered the student-run Montclairion newspaper to stop the presses in the midst of threatened […]
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Posted in Speech in Education on Feb 2nd, 2008
A Florida public school board voted Thursday in favor of a resolution to pressure state education officials to change recently imposed standards that they regard as a mandate to teach evolution “as scientific fact.”
Members of the Nassau County School Board want the standards to include language “such that evolution is not presented at the exclusion […]
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Another chapter unfolded this week in the debate on what college professors should be permitted say to students, as a Brandeis University professor challenged the university’s decision to discipline him for making a reference to a derogatory term.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education issued a statement Wednesday calling for increased media attention to the […]
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Politicians, parents and educators are at odds this week over whether homosexuality should legally be included in lesson plans for public school sexual education courses.
Arguments held before the Circuit Court in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Wednesday pitted school officials - who believe that lesson plans should be left to educators - against parents and other […]
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Posted in Speech in Education on Jan 16th, 2008
DePaul University has unveiled a new policy outlining the school’s guidelines for on-campus student speech. Included in the guidelines is a warning to some students who have raised concerns that they may encounter certain viewpoints they will find offensive:
Ultimately, by remaining open to a broad range of ideas and opinions—even those that may appear to […]
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