Zachary Levenson for Truthout Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between…
Posted by Joshua Scheer A few weeks ago we had a chance to speak with Hannah Epstein. Sadly, as the American empire descends into its last gasps, we have fallen…
By Austin Sarat for ScheerPost It is hardly news that America’s colleges and universities are in serious trouble. Declining public confidence, politically motivated attacks, and the withdrawal of government funding…
For ScheerPost’s Academic Freedom Project, we are looking to speak with both professors and student journalists covering what’s happening on their campuses and the attacks on the freedoms we hold…
Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.
Welcome to Academic Freedom on Life Support, hosted by Joshua Scheer. In this episode, we speak with Austin Sarat, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at…
Posted by Joshua Scheer In an era of hypercharged politics and hardened rhetoric around immigration, it is easy for individual cases to blur into abstraction. But every so often, one…
Posted By Joshua Scheer What began as a civil rights probe has metastasized into a naked political shakedown, with the White House demanding up to $1 billion from Harvard while…
By Austin Sarat and Leah Schmalzbauer A survey of employers released on Jan. 13 brought bad news for college students entering the workforce in 2026. Among its worrisome results, “Small…
The Trump administration has reached deals with six universities following the withholding of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds and grants.
By Jim Mamer Academic freedom means that the political, religious, or philosophical beliefs of politicians, administrators, and members of the public cannot be imposed on students or faculty. Inside Higher…
The prospect of not having what we have long taken for granted has rallied the troops, offered academics and judges an occasion to articulate academic freedom’s value in new ways,…
The memos were released by a judge who, last week, slammed Rubio, Noem, and Trump for “unconstitutional” actions.
Faculty at both public and private colleges in NC express concerns about politicized attacks on academic freedom and limits to free speech.
Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or teach. But that isn’t the only scenario.
