Executive Order 12356 prescribes a system for classifying information based on national security concerns. The order gives unprecedented authority to government officials to intrude at will in controlling academic research that depends on federal support, posing a serious threat to academic freedom and hence to scientific advances and national…

Presents country-by-country information on teacher militancy and the repression and victimization of teachers by Latin American military regimes, as reported to the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). Condensed from "ATA Magazine," published by the Alberta (Canada) Teacher's Association, January 1981,…

Compares the records of the Warren Court and the Burger Court on education-related cases concerning religion and the schools, teachers' loyalty, due process and racial segregation, freedom of expression, civil rights, and equal protection under the law. Reports the voting record of individual justices. (Author/MLF)

Simply because an off-campus speaker plans to lecture on a religious topic provides no compelling state interest on the part of school officials in denying access to the campus. Available from the Christian Legal Society, Box 2069, Oak Park, Illinois 60303; $5.00 per year. (Author)

The sequence of events and implications of the disciplinary dismissal of three faculty members of Philander Smith College are discussed with relation to the AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles. It is concluded that faculty rights were violated by the administration and governing board. (MSE)

The denial of tenure to and dismissal of an assistant professor at Nichols College are considered. It is concluded that he was denied due process according to the AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles. No issue of academic freedom was raised by the decision; however, the administration's action is criticized. (MSE)

Reviews the historical development of the press in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present. Discusses the various pressures that Latin American newspapers are subject to, including political censorship, economic restrictions, and cultural conflicts. (AEA)

Autonomy, in the context of higher education, is defined as the ability of a university or college to govern itself without outside controls. Autonomy and academic freedom are discussed and procedural and substantive autonomy are distinguished. (MLW)

The issues of academic freedom, institutional autonomy, government involvement in higher education, and students' part in the power structure are analyzed for several European countries. Recent influences, political and economic, are reviewed. (MSE)

Examines the extent that educational institutions can regulate face-to-face solicitation. Legal decisions indicate that: (1) regulation is not aimed at commercial content; (2) legitimate college interests include student privacy and the harm posed by high pressure sales tactics; and (3) alternatives for commerical information dissemination must be…

Reports on a survey of high school principals and faculty advisers concerning student press rights. Considers the need for guidelines on prior restraint of student newspaper content. (RL)

Society's pressures on higher education are seen as turning students into "attendees" and colleges into holding vats for the young. Some suggestions include elevating standards in the schools, using educational brokering, sharpening accrediting surveillance, providing incentives, and forming faculty-admissions officer "Committees on Academic…

Questionnaires completed by students at the beginning and end of an introductory mass communications course indicated that student opinion did not move in the direction of perceived instructor bias, that students' conclusions were independent of "correct" journalistic responses, and that students applied First Amendment considerations differently…

The issue in West Virginia's censorship controversy is clear. Parents feared democratic freedom of choice and wanted their children taught to be idealogical carbon copies of themselves. But the parents themselves may not be to blame. They too are products of authoritarian, no-think schools in which orthodoxy went unchallenged. (Author/SJL)

Discusses confusion about the meaning of human rights in the United States. Suggests that welfare rights usurp the more traditional freedom rights of the founding fathers. Contrasts American interpretations with those of the Soviet Union. Journal availability: see SO 507 190. (KC)