Faculty Lounge Cal-State Administrators May Restrict Conservative Speakers from Campus Spencer Irvine May 31, 2016 Editor’s Note: This discussion occurred at CSU-LA, not UCLA as was previously published. We apologize for the error. At a…
Faculty Lounge Arizona’s New Law Prevents Colleges from Restricting Free Speech to Designated Zone Spencer Irvine May 23, 2016 Way to go, Governor Doug Ducey. A win for free speech.
Faculty Lounge Harvard Students Drown Out African-American Pro-Life Speaker Spencer Irvine Imagine if the speaker were a minority and a political liberal. Would conservatives or libertarians drown out the speaker?
Faculty Lounge Kansas Professor Not Offered Tenure after Outcry by Sensitive Students Spencer Irvine May 20, 2016 From the College Fix: “A professor at the University of Kansas just coincidentally got blocked from continuing on the tenure track after students complained about a class discussion that they themselves provoked, Inside Higher Ed reports.”
Faculty Lounge Minnesota Students Worry that Free Speech Protections will Create Protections for Hate Speech Spencer Irvine May 19, 2016 Maybe they should review Supreme Court cases and get a better understanding of what free speech is.
Faculty Lounge Melissa Click, in Documentary, says She Should’ve Been More Polite Spencer Irvine May 17, 2016 The ESPN documentary, directed by Spike Lee, interviewed the fired Mizzou professor Melissa Click, whose comments and actions against a…
Faculty Lounge Professor Gets Tenure Despite Stance on Creationism in the Classroom Spencer Irvine May 14, 2016 Eric Hedin got tenure at Ball State University despite objections from the scientific community about his belief in creationism, which…
Faculty Lounge Former NYPD Commissioner Gives ‘Disinvitation Dinner’ Speech that Brown University Students Shut Down Spencer Irvine May 4, 2016 This speech was given at Yale, not Brown, especially after Brown University students shut down former Commissioner Kelly’s speech: Two-and-a-half…
Faculty Lounge Black Cartoonist’s Criticism of Black Lives Matter is Racist, Some Students Allege Spencer Irvine May 3, 2016 What?! How is …never mind. Read it for yourself: A black student at Wesley College published a picture some deem…
Faculty Lounge San Diego State University President has Car Surrounded by Protesters after Free Speech Comments Spencer Irvine So much for defending free speech and then be surrounded by people exercising their free speech, who then want you…
Faculty Lounge Maryland Law Protects Student Journalists from Repercussions Spencer Irvine It’s a good step to protect student journalists from advisors and high school and college administrators who could suppress their…
Faculty Lounge Another Win for Free Speech: University of Chicago Dumps Free Speech Code Spencer Irvine April 29, 2016 It becomes to earn a ‘green-light’ free speech rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Photo by…
