The State of Academic Freedom 1995

A Special Report from Teachers for a Democratic Culture

Teachers for a Democratic Culture has issued this report to alert the public to threats posed to academic freedom in higher education.

Entire Report

Editor's Note

Introduction

Special Update: Yale Retaliates Against Graduate Student Strike

The Top Ten Threats to Academic Freedom:  

1. Defunding the Left: The Attacks on the NEA and the NEH

    The History Wars; The Istook Gag Rules; The Threat From State Legislatures    

2. Censorship in Cyberspace    

3. Harassment Codes and Free Speech

    Speech Codes: The Overblown Threat; A Model Harassment Code; The Poster Police; Don't Talk About Sex; Racial Harassment and the OCR

4. Heterosexual Correctness

    More Censorship at the University of Iowa    

5. Judge Upholds Punishment of Jeffries' Speech    

6. Censoring the Student Press    

7. Power of the Purse: Alumni Demands Vs. Academic Freedom

    What Really Happened to Western Civilization at Yale    

8. Authoritarian Administrators: Censorship of Faculty on Campus    

9. The Heresy Hunters: Academic Freedom at Religious Schools

    Homophobia at Religious Colleges; Religion in the Classroom; Defunding Controversial Groups: The Rosenberger case   

10. The Art of Censorship