Reviews major court decisions on cases involving instructors' rights to teach controversial issues, to choose their teaching style, and to affect the curriculum in such ways as deciding to assign creationist or evolutionary biology textbooks. (Editor/RK)

Discusses court cases involving freedom of the college student press and suggests that student newspaper staffs meet with administrators to agree on editorial policy. (GW)

The relationship between state and university in Denmark is reviewed with focus on such issues as student and faculty militancy, organizational structure, government intervention, academic freedom, and institutional autonomy. (LBH)

Reports on a survey in which journalism advisers were asked to rule as they believed a judge would on ten hypothetical situations generalized from actual court decisions regarding freedom of the press. Describes the educational backgrounds and characteristics of the advisers who scored highest on the questions. (GW)

AAUP staff work in academic freedom and tenure is reviewed, including the imposition and removal of censure, determining credit for prior service elsewhere, sex discrimination complaints, confidentiality of faculty files, due process, and DNA research. (LBH)

Contending that potential conflict between copyright and free speech inevitable if present provisions of the copyright bill providing copyright for television are enacted, the author suggests an alternative approach based on analysis of English and American background, copyright and the law of unfair competition, and policies of the copyright…

Discusses the conflict between the adviser of a junior college student newspaper and the college administration, regarding the newspaper's right to publish editorials reflecting criticism of administrators. (GW)

In 1969 Hampshire College in Massachusetts explore the "contract for service," by which faculty appointments are made for three-to-seven-year terms. Experience to date has shown low turnover, with fewer opportunities but better retention for young faculty. The relationship of the contract system to academic freedom is not yet tested.…

Examines the distinction between private and public schools as a key factor in determining whether or not student journalists are entitled to the full protection of the First Amendment. (MB)

A study of court cases suggests that academic freedom litigation is more likely to originate from public multiversities and comprehensives and among faculty in the humanities and social sciences. This implies that academic units with greater organizational ambiguity are most likely to generate litigation related to academic freedom. (Author/MLW)

Past restrictions on his travel in the United States after the author was classified an "undesirable alien" under the provisions of the McCarran-Walter Act are described. (Author/MLW)

Professors and administrators are vowing to fight what they call the "fundamentalist takeover" of Mercer University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The "takeovers" are seen as assaults on academic freedom. (MLW)

Four articles explore the concept of national security and its impact on freedom of information, historically and currently, in the United States (Harold C. Relyea, Steven L. Katz), Australia (Richard Alston), and the United Kingdom (David Goldberg). (CLB)

Complaints and cases handled by the American Association of University Professors from June 1, 1986-May 31, 1987 are described. Judicial business including case held over from the previous year, imposition of censure, deferred recommendations, and removal of censure are discussed. Open-meeting laws are reviewed. (MLW)

Explores the issue of intellectual freedom and the role of the library in the community, and the extent to which community attitudes and values should influence library policy. A specific incident involving a public library exhibit of materials on gay rights in Durham, North Carolina, is described. (CLB)