Higher Education

ACLU’s case for Professor Adam Habib continues

By |2020-01-02T15:33:24-05:00December 9th, 2008|Blog|

Professor Adam Habib has been barred from speaking at US universities, presumably for his critique of the US and Middle East foreign policies. Today, After the government moved to dismiss the case, Judge George O’Toole of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that the case will proceed. A South African scholar, Habib has written at the [...]

Berkeley: From Free Speech to No Offense Permitted

By |2020-01-02T15:33:21-05:00December 8th, 2008|Blog|

A recent incident a Berkeley's Addison Street Gallery forced the City to review its guidelines on art shown in the gallery. The guidelines, which included a blanket ban on any representations of guns, had led to the cancellation to The Art of Democracy, a touring poster show. After letters from the ACLU and NCAC, the City decided to modify its [...]

Academic Freedom and Student Press at DuPage

By |2020-01-02T15:33:15-05:00November 25th, 2008|Blog|

At DuPage College – a community college outside of Chicago – the board has recently proposed a policy change that would give far more power to the board of trustees. This would influence “such questions as the future of the curriculum, the role of the student newspaper, how outside speakers should be selected, and so forth”. And, perhaps most significantly, [...]

“Pall of Orthodoxy”: The Insidious Persistence of Loyalty Oaths

By |2017-10-05T11:14:27-04:00May 24th, 2008|FEPP Articles|

A recent incident in California has dramatized the insidious persistence of loyalty oaths for public employment in America. These oaths of allegiance originated in the days of King Henry VIII of England, when treasonous plots and religious wars threatened royal hegemony. They survive today as coerced rituals of political orthodoxy, and as threats to free thought. The latest casualty is [...]

Brandeis Removes Palestinian Art

By |2020-01-03T14:13:50-05:00May 9th, 2006|Incidents|

  University claims its choice to close an exhibit of visual art by Palestinian teenagers "isn't censorship."   Brandeis student Lior Halperin (read an interview with Lior at Democracy Now!) curated "Voices from Palestine," an exhibit of visual art by Palestinian teenagers, to bring a different viewpoint to the campus. But four days into a two-week exhibition, school administrators have [...]

FL Community College Moves Art Mixing Bondage and Religion Behind Closed Doors

By |2016-01-15T12:24:35-05:00March 21st, 2001|Incidents|

Santa Fe Community College Gainesville, FL March 21, 2001 Under pressure from the Catholic League and the local community, four works in the exhibition "Pat Payne: A look at Violence in Religious and Sexual Imagery" (February 8 - March 29, 2002) at the Santa Fe Community College Gallery were moved to a professor's office. Pat Payne's work blends sexual bondage [...]

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