The Ohio State University adopts Free Speech Policy to align with Ohio Law.
California Community Colleges’ Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEIA) Principals Not Enforceable
New College Group Sues Florida over Law Restricting Instruction
Cornell’s interim president, Michael Kotlikoff, has been accused of undermining academic freedom after privately criticizing a pro‑Palestinian course—taught by Jewish professor Eric Cheyfitz and titled “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance”—as “factually inaccurate” and antisemitic in response to concerns raised by adjunct professor Menachem Rosensaft. That Nov. 6 email, intended as a confidential faculty governance exchange, was later […]
Penn’s new Temporary Standards and Procedures for Campus Events and Demonstrations—issued June 6, 2024—require news media to show credentials on request and allow University Communications (and potentially campus police) to confine filming to specified areas during demonstrations, a provision critics say infringes on press freedom. The ACLU of Pennsylvania calls it a “blatant First Amendment […]
The University of Pennsylvania is reviewing Professor Julia Alekseyeva’s conduct after she publicly praised Luigi Mangione—the alumnus charged with killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, 2024—first on TikTok and then on X, calling him “the icon we all need and deserve.” Although Alekseyeva has since deleted those posts, retracted her remarks, and […]
California prosecutors have declined to pursue felony charges of burglary, vandalism, and conspiracy against Dilan Gohill, the Stanford Daily freshman reporter arrested last June while covering a pre‑dawn occupation of the university president’s office. District Attorney Jeff Rosen noted there is no evidence Gohill did anything beyond reporting, and although the review of the twelve […]
On May 6, 2024, the University of Wisconsin placed two student organizations—Mecha de UW–Madison and Anticolonial Scientists—on interim suspension and opened investigations into allegations that their off‑campus chalk messages amounted to discriminatory harassment, with critics claiming the chalking endorsed violence, backed terrorist groups, and included antisemitic remarks. Ten days later, on May 16, the Foundation […]
On November 4, 2024, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed Knight Institute v. Department of Education, No. 24‑cv‑08393 (S.D.N.Y.), seeking to compel the immediate release of all guidance—both public and private—that the Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has provided to colleges and universities regarding their Title VI obligations amid the wave […]
A conservative group challenged Indiana University’s bias-response teams “official entities that solicit anonymous reports of bias, track them, investigate them, ask to meet with the perpetrators, and threaten to refer students for formal discipline ” arguing that that they objectively chill students” speech under the First Amendment.
