Faculty and students at Texas A&M push back against state-driven censorship as administrators meddle in courses on race, gender — even Plato — and academic freedom statewide.
Florida keeps tightening the screws on higher ed — cancelled courses, gag laws, public shaming, and syllabi policing — and academic freedom just took another hit.
A law professor at the University of South Carolina was named the next dean, but her offer was rescinded after state legislators objected to her signing a “friend of the court” brief that made legal arguments in support of trans athletes.
Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson has a choice: Drop readings related to race and gender — including ones by Plato — from his course, or face reassignment.
Imposing a restraint — even an implicit one — on what employees can say to the media makes Duke a liar, belying its posturing as a university committed to open discourse.
The Texas Tech University System ordered its five member-universities to comb through faculty materials to root out any of the state’s disfavored viewpoints.
