Presents the results of a survey of public librarians in the United States conducted to determine their attitudes toward intellectual freedom with emphasis on responses regarding extension services to poor and minorities, attitude changes, and factors that influence attitudes. (CHC)

Threats to individual academic freedom are coming from within the academic community with the advent of collective bargaining, agency shops, and exclusive representation by unions. Increasingly, collective bargaining agreements are overriding individual tenure rights if they conflict. (Author/IRT)

Examines the issue of academic freedom for publications advisers, especially those at private institutions. (RL)

It is unlikely that the courts will deny universities the right to require mandatory student fees for educational purposes if the criteria for determining and distributing the funds do not exceed statutory purposes, are not arbitrary or capricious, are nondiscriminatory, and do not promote or impose one particular viewpoint. (Author/IRT)

Surveys the status of freedom of the press in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, noting that although preliminary censorship was abolished in most of Europe by 1850, governments devised other means to influence what appeared in print. (GT)

Describes the highlights of the 1976 convention of the Association for Education in Journalism. (KS)

McCarthyesque echoes of the 1950's still sound at times through today's halls of academe. (MB)

Reviews the history of the tenure system and its constitutional and due process implications. Describes Florida's sustained performance review program, an evaluation of tenured faculty every seven years to encourage continuing professional development. (SK)

Explores the challenges and criticism that some faculty members and the academy encountered following September 11, 2001, and highlights the notable efforts college faculty have made to engage their students, transform the classroom, and invigorate the academy while preserving academic freedom. (SLD)

The ethics of the influential psychologist and ethicist Lawrence Kohlberg are analyzed from a communitarian perspective. Kohlberg's conception of morality is described as not as formal and universal as claimed, and it is suggested that it is, in fact, a monological ethic. (SLD)

Argues that news media today is dominated by style rather than substance, citing the O.J. Simpson trial as an example. Points out that although respondents to surveys repeatedly said that the trial received too much coverage, the massive coverage continued. (PA)

Explores tests for determining teachers' free-speech rights established in two Supreme Court decisions: "Pickering" and "Connick." Analysis includes discussion of confusion between teacher's status as a citizen and that of an employee. Concludes that courts should use the balancing principle in "Pickering" to…

Analyzes New Jersey case wherein a federal district-court judge ruled that religious group had the First Amendment free-speech right to distribute flyers and permission slips to students, post notices on school walls, and participate in back-to-school night in effort to establish a student religious club in two elementary schools. (PKP)