BY JENNIFER LUNDQUIST AND THE STAND TOGETHER FOR HIGHER ED LEADERSHIP TEAM I, along with the undersigned leaders of Stand Together for Higher Ed, a national faculty-led movement to defend US higher education, are deeply concerned by reports that Harvard University is engaged in negotiations with the Trump administration to settle ongoing legal disputes. While…
BY GLENN COLBY Today the AAUP released a report on data collected from the 2024 AAUP Community College Shared Governance Survey, conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges. This first-of-its-kind survey of community college shared governance provides information about what practices prevail nationally across twenty-six areas of institutional decision-making and how they…
On July 15, 2025, City University of New York Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Robert M. Groves, Interim President of Georgetown University, and Rich Lyons, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley testified before the House Committee on Education and Workforce at a hearing on “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding,…
BY MADELINE ROWE Madeline Rowe, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, is conducting a dissertation research study on how early career faculty members (tenure-track, but not yet tenured) perceive academic freedom in their teaching. Current faculty members of any rank and teaching in any discipline are invited to complete a brief survey…
BY JOAN W. SCOTT I was deeply disturbed to see this recent e-mailing from some 27 historians, 12 of whom are former presidents of the American Historical Association (AHA), urging members to vote for the slate proposed by the association’s Nominating Committee. To Members of the LAWCHA listserve, We write to ask those of you…
BY MIKE STEVE COLLINS The Trump administration is waging a highly successful war on knowledge and its pursuit and dissemination, disguised as a war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); antisemitism; and lack of viewpoint diversity. This war on knowledge has dealt potentially crippling blows to Harvard University and has enabled the brushing aside of…
BY KATHY ROBERTS FORDE AND THE MEMBERS OF THE STAND TOGETHER FOR HIGHER ED LEADERSHIP TEAM* In a rare act of institutional solidarity, twenty-four universities have filed a joint amicus brief supporting Harvard in its lawsuit against the federal government’s attempt to cut research funding. The lawsuit challenges the federal government’s politically motivated suspension of…
BY SAHAR AZIZ For decades, when the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was mentioned, it was usually in reference to combatting antisemitism. Now the ADL is more accurately cited in the litany of pro-Israeli groups attempting to criminalize Muslim and Palestinian students for seeking an end to the horrific genocide in Gaza. For over a hundred years,…
BY ROBERT M. KAPLAN Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stunned the scientific community by proposing that researchers stop submitting articles to high-impact academic journals and instead publish in government-run outlets. The backlash was swift. Within a day, The Washington Post received more than four thousand comments—most of them scathing. But buried beneath the outrage lies a…
BY DAVID MOSHMAN Readers of this blog may be interested in three new intellectual freedom case repositories that are now available on the MetaCat Foundation website. Feel free to take a look at them before reading on. The first repository is the Academic Freedom Gaza Case Repository, which is connected to my book-in-progress, Gaza, Genocide,…