There are no easy answers in the area of the right of free speech. The academic rights of teachers cannot be affirmed without also recognizing the rights of parents and the responsibilities of administrators. The First Amendment represents a national commitment to risk on the side of freedom. (Author/JN)

Examines the question of exactly what a teacher can teach in the public schools of the United States. The article explores the constitutional rights of both teachers and their students. Although these two categories are very closely related and in many instances almost inseparable, an attempt is made to look at the rights of each as they affect…

Article points up the essential nature of academic freedom as allowing teachers to be innovative and enliven and inspire students by exercising professional and intellectual judgement in presenting course material. (Author/GB)

Kurt Vonnegut states that in banning books from publicly supported institutions, censors (including school board members) are violating the Constitution. (WD)

States that, during its first five years, the Rehnquist Court was supportive of free expression issues. Contends that in later years a different picture emerges. Asserts that this drop in support, caused by the retirement of justices carried over from the Berger Court, gives rise to concerns about the future of free expression rights. (PRA)

Although colleges and universities should provide a climate in which external conventions and social pressures are absent, and individualism and intellectual freedom can flourish, they no longer do so. Higher education institutions should detach themselves from commercial culture and urge intellectual passions. (MSE)

In weighing free speech versus harassment, university administrators and lawyers tend to exert controls more suitable for commercial institutions, where the pursuit of truth is not preeminent. Harvey Silverglate cites examples of egregious restrictions that went "poof" in the bright light of exposure to the public.

This article addresses the thorny question of military discipline vs. academic freedom, demonstrating that the military academy is the perfect proving ground if you want to test the value of academic freedom. The authors, who are also Air Force officers, embarked on a two-year quest to determine what place academic freedom has at a military…

As a feminist professor engaged in liberal education, the author argues that in these troubled times, when conservative groups such as Students for Academic Freedom have set themselves in opposition to a "liberal professoriate," faculty need to keep in mind that the goal of higher education is to teach college students to use analytical thinking…

Using comparative data from 23 states within the European Union (EU), this paper is a preliminary assessment of the protection for, and (by extension) the health of, academic freedom in the universities of the nations of the EU. The paper examines constitutional and legislative protection for academic freedom, along with legal regulations…

Most college and university speech codes would not survive a legal challenge, according to a report released in December by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a watchdog group for free speech on campuses. The report labeled many speech codes as overly broad or vague, and cited examples such as Furman University's prohibition of…