Ascertain any restrictions on Freedom of Speech rights that Texas students face in expressing their views on campus along with freedoms of the press, religion, and assembly. Recommend policy changes that protect First Amendment rights and enhance the free speech environment on campus. More...
To churn out more workers with marketable skills, an increasing number of states are offering residents free tuition to community colleges and technical schools. More...
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. An Illinois community college student has sued her institution alleging a free speech violation when campus police detained her and confiscated leaflets she was passing out that were critical of capitalism. More...
After a year marked by campus confrontations between white nationalists and anti-fascist extremists, university administrators are preparing for a combative and potentially violent 2018 by beefing up security and examining the boundaries of their own commitment to free speech. More...
In Michael Young’s 1958 satire The Rise of the Meritocracy, he speaks of men with “poor ability but rich connexions”. One such man, his son Toby, has found the new year particularly arduous, with news of his appointment to the board of the Office for Students garnering vociferous criticism on the grounds he is unsuited to such an elevated position. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The City University of New York is reporting an 11 percent increase in applications for freshman admission for the fall. Officials attribute the increase to New York State's new program to provide free tuition at CUNY and State University of New York campuses for students enrolled full-time. More...
Techno-News Blog. A number of universities across Africa are creating free online courses in the hope that they will democratize access to education, inspire more collaboration and networking between African institutions, and support access to education for women, among other benefits. More...
Jo Johnson has decided to grasp the nettle of free speech at universities (Students attack no-platform threat, 27 December). It’s a prickly subject.
The minister seems to have “no-platforming” by student unions in his sights. However, there is a major free-speech failure by the universities themselves that is easier to fix. For some years now universities, not the student unions, have been routinely obstructing campus events that focus on Palestinian rights and their denial by Israel. The government’s own adoption of the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism a year ago has fuelled this, with play-safe administrations seemingly unclear about the difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. More...
The government says it wants to ensure free speech on campus – yet under the Prevent strategy it has its own list of banned speakers. More...
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