Free Speech Tag

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Judge Rules Against Ex-UNL Lecturer Who Claimed School Violated Her Rights After She Harassed Conservative Student Group

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 15, 2022 31 Comments

A former lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln named Courtney Lawton sued the school claiming her First Amendment rights to free speech were violated when the school fired her for taking part in a political protest. A judge has disagreed. We covered the incident that sparked this lawsuit.

University of Houston Settles Lawsuit With Conservative Free Speech Group

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 12, 2022 2 Comments

“This is a huge win for the First Amendment”...

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Renames Itself, Will Broaden Focus

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 08, 2022 5 Comments

“To say the least, we have not solved the campus free-speech problem, but we started to realize if we wanted to save free speech on campus we have to start earlier and we have to do things not on campus”...

Independent MIT Alumni Group Receives Major Donation to Promote Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 07, 2022 4 Comments

“We want to inform, educate, and engage the students”...

Ilya Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown Law, Blames Dean William Treanor For Embracing Anti-Free Expression “Hostile Work Environment”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2022 18 Comments

"Dean William Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the [DEI Office] implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy. Instead of participating in that...

Survey Finds Large Percentage of College Students are Afraid to Speak Out on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 06, 2022 4 Comments

"the findings coincided with the contentious events surrounding the 2020 presidential election at a time when Americans were deeply politically polarized"...

Ilya Shapiro Returning To Georgetown Law After Suspension Over SCOTUS Nomination Tweet Lifted

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2022 7 Comments

Not surprisingly, Georgetown's Dean William Treanor took the cowardly way out. Rather than owning up to Georgetown's error, Treanor ended the punishment based on a finding that because the tweet took place pre-employment, it was not properly the subject of discipline. Treanor repeated the absurd...

Public Universities in Georgia Embrace New Free Speech Policy

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 31, 2022 1 Comment

"The state Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s 26 public universities, voted Tuesday to change their institutions’ free speech policies"...

Boston University Students Argue Free Speech Doesn’t Apply to Conservative Writer

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 23, 2022 15 Comments

"We fully believe in freedom of speech and expression, however there is a line between free speech and hate speech that must be drawn"...

U. Illinois Chicago School of Public Health to Cancel the Term ‘Obesity’ Because it’s Racist

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 20, 2022 54 Comments

The University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health is looking to tackle obesity. No, not the health problem but the word itself. A dietician at the school has declared the word to be racist and has a more woke suggestion to replace it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwLWfaAg-8

Elon Musk Says He Will Vote Republican for First Time in Upcoming Elections

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 18, 2022 27 Comments

Elon Musk has been in the news a lot lately, over his ongoing takeover of Twitter, but his recent comments about how he plans to vote in November are sure to generate a lot of buzz as well. During a recent appearance on a podcast, he said he is planning to vote Republican, possibly for the first time.

U. Central Florida Prof. Charles Negy, Fired After Tweeting “Black Privilege is Real,” Ordered Reinstated With Tenure and Back Pay

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2022 47 Comments

Arbitrator finds no "just cause" for termination. Negy: "UCF Administrators (and all university administrators) need to get the message that they cannot simply 'purge' or even discipline professors who do not conform to the DEI ideology that they are imposing on entire university campuses."...

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Free Speech Tag

Judge Rules Against Ex-UNL Lecturer Who Claimed School Violated Her Rights After She Harassed Conservative Student Group

University of Houston Settles Lawsuit With Conservative Free Speech Group

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Renames Itself, Will Broaden Focus

Independent MIT Alumni Group Receives Major Donation to Promote Free Speech

Ilya Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown Law, Blames Dean William Treanor For Embracing Anti-Free Expression “Hostile Work Environment”

Survey Finds Large Percentage of College Students are Afraid to Speak Out on Campus

Ilya Shapiro Returning To Georgetown Law After Suspension Over SCOTUS Nomination Tweet Lifted

Public Universities in Georgia Embrace New Free Speech Policy

Boston University Students Argue Free Speech Doesn’t Apply to Conservative Writer

U. Illinois Chicago School of Public Health to Cancel the Term ‘Obesity’ Because it’s Racist

Elon Musk Says He Will Vote Republican for First Time in Upcoming Elections

U. Central Florida Prof. Charles Negy, Fired After Tweeting “Black Privilege is Real,” Ordered Reinstated With Tenure and Back Pay

Princeton Preparing to Fire Prof Who Called Out School’s Progressive Politics

Saint Vincent College Has Meltdown After Frank Discussion About Race in America

Ohio School Board Settles With Woman Who Sued After Being Told to ‘Zip it’ at Meeting

Georgia Gov. Kemp Signs Law Protecting Free Speech on Campus

Administrators at U. Wisconsin-Superior Help Students Plan Matt Walsh Protest

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