Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“Accordingly, publicly announcing an investigation of students when the allegations pertain to protected speech alone is not appropriate.” Another letter was sent in December questioning limitations on student journalists’ ability to interview university employees, which FIRE argues inhibits press freedom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

On the 60th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, we stand at a pivotal moment in history. s powerful "I Have a Dream" speech, we are called to reimagine a future where economic opportunity is accessible to all Americans. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. as a tool in research project supervision. as a tool in research project supervision. Neural networks and deep learning allowed more sophisticated understandings of language.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Yet, examples of administrative overreach, disrespect for faculty expertise and shared governance, and unwillingness to publicly support academic freedom also extend to the sphere of artistic expression. Just ask curators and directors at the nation’s hundreds of campus art museums and galleries. Which is exactly what I did last year.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That article contains no mention of the First Amendment, or even of freedom of speech interests more broadly, so we’d like to offer that perspective. The inseparable relationship between speech and the technology that amplifies it is embodied in the text of the First Amendment itself.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The inaugural Insight Into Diversity Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award recognizes academic libraries who are advancing programs and initiatives that support DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in areas such as research, accessibility, community outreach, technology, exhibitions, and collections.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In a public statement affirming its commitment to academic freedom, the university said Journey asked to push back the class. It likely needs to go beyond just saying their speech is protected. “The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is committed to academic freedom,” the draft statement of support says.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

The deleterious effects of the state bills can be felt among faculty, especially in the state of Florida, according to the Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on Academic Freedom and Florida, a study recently published by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). It’s] viewpoint discrimination,” says Hutchens.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

“I’m hesitant to say there’s a [free speech] crisis,” Shiell said. First, he noted, universities now have processes for reporting other students’ speech; Stanford’s anonymous bias incident report system, for one, has been criticized for impeding free expression.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Between Florida asserting that what college faculty say in class is “ government speech ” and Idaho telling college faculty that they “ must remain neutral ” on certain issues, an old challenge has re-emerged for college leaders. What does academic freedom mean to you?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

” I’m inclined to disagree with Nichols: even if a majority of Floridians approve of DeSantis’s emulation of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, it is not clear that this majority is either legally or ethically entitled to limit the speech of the minority or to dictate what they may or may not study. Section 6.2.c

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In higher education, a content disclosure (also referred to as a content notice or trigger warning) is an “explicit statement that alerts a group of learners that certain content explored or discussed in a learning environment may contain potentially distressing material” (see Bryce et al., 2022 for a review). Boysen, 2017).

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In higher education, a content disclosure (also referred to as a content notice or trigger warning) is an “explicit statement that alerts a group of learners that certain content explored or discussed in a learning environment may contain potentially distressing material” (see Bryce et al., 2022 for a review). Boysen, 2017).

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For the poet-professor, love is a ‘practice of freedom’ to ‘ move against domination, against oppression’. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways to liberate ourselves and others’ (1994). Poverty of imagination.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The end of tenure doesn’t have to mean the end of academic rights to freedom of speech or protection against arbitrary firing. We could see it as an opportunity to develop better ways of protecting these rights—ways that work for all teachers and researchers in higher education, not just for the lucky minority.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

There is institutional focus on achieving Research One status. There is a second-year experience in which students are strongly encouraged to engage in a high-impact practice, such as research with faculty or service learning, which increase persistence. Two is the research funding, then research personnel.”

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The PIE News

MAY 18, 2023

.” “Like any international body operating in the UK, Confucius Institutes need to operate transparently and within the law, and with a full commitment to our values of openness and freedom of expression. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

He’s also a retired Israeli brigadier general who directs the domestic research cluster of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies. ” Meir Elran is a visiting professor at the university teaching the class Security, Counter-Terrorism and Resilience: The Israeli Case.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

Three Ivy League presidents found themselves in the hot seat due to the outbreak of campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war, which sparked its own conversation on academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and free speech. colleges and universities increased research and development (R&D) spending by $3.4

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Which is why I was bowled over when I learned what a neighboring institution, Austin Community College, was up to. Examples include: Purdue’s Cornerstone: Learning for Living, an immersive, integrated liberal arts certificate program. Because it’s in the interest of faculty who are trained in specific disciplines.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

This is an extract from a speech delivered this week by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to the Board of the University of Wolverhampton (with apologies to local band Slade for the title and to Alice Cooper for the subtitles). But over 2,500 days on from the referendum, we still aren’t quite sure what will happen.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A tenured professor is a faculty member at a college or university who has a full-time teaching position and strong job security that protects academic freedom. They teach, conduct research in their fields, serve on college committees, and mentor students. Today, they make up the majority of professors on any college campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Success requires leaders to learn how to say no. That college teaching remains largely what it has always been: an amateur enterprise that fails to take into account the insights of the learning sciences. It’s not that institutions ignore campus inequities or student learning. Adapt or die. It’s what they do.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that meet a prescribed number of times per week across the term or semester. It effectively facilitates sequenced and accretive design but regularly loses opportunities to maximize deep learning between class units. All rights reserved.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Along with civil rights, conservatives are assailing issues involving free speech and expression, education, health care, and gender-neutral bathrooms as well as gender identification processes. However, 33 percent of those surveyed reported they were bullied, harassed, or assaulted on campus. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

That the shifts from orality to symbols to alphabet, from speech to script, from memory to written records, from classical and elite to vernacular language, and from printed to electronic language, represent fundamental disjunctions and radical ruptures and divides in human history.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

As researchers, our politics shape which research questions interest us and how we decide to explore those questions; how we describe the social phenomena we study; what we, and our institutions, funders, and community partners consider socially useful research that serves a practical purpose.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The group pledged in the statement to ensure efforts at their colleges “do not promote any ideology that suppresses intellectual and academic freedom, freedom of expression, viewpoint diversity, and the pursuit of truth in teaching and learning.” Some faculty members were incensed. That’s anti-education.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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HEPI

JANUARY 3, 2024

Finally, in November 2015, the Government proposed the establishment of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) under which each institution would be graded for the quality of its teaching and learning, initially at institutional level but putatively at subject level (subsequently found to be infeasible). Three things seem clear.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

McCarthyism aside, just think of the gay purges at the Universities of Texas, Missouri and Wisconsin during the 1940s or the late-19th- and early-20th-century attacks on academic freedom that gave rise to the American Association of University Professors. Double standards about academic integrity and plagiarism don’t help.

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HEPI

MAY 25, 2023

UK-taught lessons had been online and remote during lockdowns, language learning was impaired and there were few opportunities to enjoy the best of the UK student experience. International activity is characterised by three core activities: recruitment; research and transnational education. Recruitment is recovering strongly.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Their speech and hairstyles, too, are informal. By acknowledging and respecting generational differences, you can create a more inclusive and understanding learning environment. Use active learning techniques, including project and team-based learning activities, to keep students motivated, engaged, and focused.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With more capacity than students and issues like political interference, the decline in public trust, and the threats to academic freedom, the higher education president’s role is more stressful than ever before. Maintaining Academic Independence: Upholding academic freedom in the face of societal and political shifts.

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2023

Julian argues a reclassification of universities by the Office for National Statistics is unlikely but, if it were to occur, could result in a suspended sentence in which institutions retain the freedoms they’ve enjoyed pending changes to get them back into the private sector. For details on how to get a free place, see here.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

It is exceedingly difficult, for example, to learn much about disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, class, the experience of transfer students or employment outcomes, let alone the quality of the education that the institution offers. Issue 3: Student learning and employment outcomes. Monitor student learning.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

She had taken to telephoning individual vice-chancellors to question some aspect of university management or student behaviour, while enthusiastically pursuing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which at the time of writing is at the committee stage in the House of Lords, procedurally close to its establishment in statute – perhaps.

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