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.
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
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
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