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AFA's David Rabban of UT Austin School of Law is out today with a new book examining the case law on academic freedom and free speech at U.S. universities. It develops a robust theory of academic freedom as a subset of First Amendment law. Check it out: amazon.com/Academic-Freed…

In partnership with Academic Freedom Alliance & Heterodox Academy, FIRE challenged America’s colleges to adopt institutional neutrality before the 2024-2025 academic year. After six months, these colleges promised to refrain from making statements on political and social issues.

🚨 FIRE’s 2025 College Free Speech Rankings are out! UVA takes the top spot for the best free speech climate while Harvard University remains dead last for the second year in a row rankings.thefire.org

Great decisions from these universities. Faculty and students must be able to think and speak freely, without a thumb on the scale from administrators pushing a particular viewpoint.

See our statement on Penn's suspension of Amy Wax. A “manifest betrayal of its own commitment to its faculty.” We have sent three letters to Penn in defense of Wax since Jan 2022. academicfreedom.org/afa-statement-…

🧑‍🎓If higher education once embraced academic freedom, why are many institutions struggling to uphold it today? Keith E. Whittington explains how the concept of academic freedom came to be. Don't miss this interview ⬇️

Today is #GivingTuesday and we would love to be on your generosity list. Our work to defend faculty under fire for speech is funded by our members and friends - we would not be able to do it without you! AcademicFreedom.org/donate.

We're pleased to announce that the Academic Freedom Podcast is BACK after a lengthy hiatus, now a joint production with the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School. Check out our just released interview with Prof. Cary Nelson, former AAUP president, hosted by

New podcast episode out now. @Kewhittington sits down with Prof. Timothy Zick to discuss the laws surrounding public protest on campuses. Zick is author of the recent book "Managed Dissent: The Law of Public Protests." Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:

What are the limits of faculty free speech? That's the topic of our new podcast episode out now, feat. Michael Berube and Jennifer Ruth, authors of the recent book "It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom." Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

In our latest interview on academic freedom, we sat down with Harvard Law's Janet Halley (a founding AFA member) to discuss what's next for our movement. Excerpt: "I’d like to point to the vital threats to academic freedom coming from D.C. right now, in the form of federal

New episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast: An interview with Prof. David Cole of Georgetown Law, lead author of the recent "Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia." He and Keith E. Whittington discuss the implications of the Trump administration's pressure campaign

We released a statement today on the deportation of noncitizen scholars and students from American universities. "It is a grave threat to the mission of American universities if international scholars and students fear removal from the United States based on little more than

We are deeply concerned about the published report that New College of Florida fired Prof. Kevin Wang because of his Chinese nationality. Wang is a Chinese national lawfully authorized to reside and work in the United States as he seeks asylum for political persecution by the

New podcast ep out now: Keith E. Whittington and NYU Law's Daniel Hemel discuss the Trump administration’s threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status and the implications of the tax code for the workings of American universities. Prof. Hemel has expertise in taxation,

New Podcast Out Now: Keith Whittington and Harvard Law's Cass Sunstein discuss the legal and constitutional questions raised by the Trump administration's withholding of federal grants from Columbia and Harvard to force internal policy reforms. podbean.com/ew/pb-egdf7-18…