Browsing: freedom

Before Clark Kerr was president of the University of California from 1958 to 1967, he was a faculty member working on a committee to evaluate colleagues…

The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For…

The UNC system Board of Governors has now defined academic freedom in its policies. Ryan Herron/iStock/Getty Images The University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted…

Shivering and rain-drenched at the side of a pond in Cornwall, a huddle of people watched in hushed silence as a beaver took its first tentative…

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2018:…

In a recent podcast, Harvard president Alan Garber said some things about teaching that I found at best odd, and at worse pretty much nonsense, because…

Alone in the dead of night, a man can fall into bleak thoughts. In the wee, small hours of the morning, he might think about lost…

In a major study released recently in Epidemiology, conclusions were drawn – yet again – regarding how shutdowns and online learning were ultimately very damaging to…

A Texas A&M University faculty council determined in late September that Melissa McCoul, an instructor fired for teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class,…

Shot in Afghanistan shortly before the 2021 Taliban takeover, Najiba Noori’s thought-provoking debut juxtaposes the private transformation of a woman with the public unravelling of the…