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Robert J. Zimmer, Who Promoted Free Speech on Campus, Dies at 75

By: Sam Roberts
A mathematician, he was for many years the president of the University of Chicago, where he argued that civility was not a reason to silence discussion.

What to Know About Tenure and Free Speech Protections

By: Eliza Fawcett
A conflict over a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania has stirred questions about what tenure means.

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School in Philadelphia, where the bounds of tenure and free speech protections on campus are being debated.

UPenn Accuses a Professor of Racist Statements. Should She Be Fired?

By: Vimal Patel
Amy Wax and free speech groups say the university is trampling on her academic freedom. Students ask whether her speech deserves to be protected.

The University of Pennsylvania law school has been roiled by the statements of a law professor.

It’s not ‘wokery’ or snowflakes strangling free expression in universities – it’s the Conservative party | Kojo Koram

By: Kojo Koram

Students and academics know cancelling speakers is trivial compared with the structural collapse in tertiary education

  • Kojo Koram teaches at the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London

It was recently announced that the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is due to appoint the UK’s first “free speech tsar” in order to combat the apparent epidemic of cancel culture in England’s universities. At a time when the newspapers are filled with stories of strikes and shortages, and of the most vulnerable people in society having to endure extreme hardship, talk of the “death of free speech” must be like music to the ears of those in power.

For the best part of a decade now, column inches have been filled by claims that freedom of thought and speech is being strangled by “snowflake” students and overzealous academics. Routine annual changes in course materials to freshen up the syllabus are turned into moral panics about white authors being cancelled. Mundane invitation decisions by student societies are treated as if they form the lifeblood of British democracy.

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Harvard Reverses Course on Human Rights Advocate Who Criticized Israel

By: Jennifer Schuessler and Marc Tracy
News that the university had blocked a fellowship for the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor influence.

Kenneth Roth, the former director of Human Rights Watch, in New York last April. The Harvard Kennedy School recently reversed its early decision to reject his fellowship application because of his criticisms of Israel.
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