Free Speech

Once designed simply to familiarize students with campus and each other, orientation has become a forum for imparting information about some of the most pressing issues in higher ed.

The “speech crisis” narrative is incorrect, even as it risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy—and even as lawmakers use it to hammer higher ed, Elizabeth Niehaus writes.

The proposal by the accrediting arm of the American Bar Association comes in the wake of multiple incidents of law school students shouting down speakers.

West Virginia University students staged a walkout Monday to oppose the university’s significant proposed employee layoffs and program cuts.

…and we create a better university for nothing? Leon Sachs argues there’s no harm—and much benefit—in taking concerns about the campus speech climate seriously.

Student protesters and faculty support dwindled over the nearly three-month occupation of the anthropology library.

A recent survey shows about 75 percent of students would report professors for saying something they find offensive.