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Universities without borders: Teaching medicine to women in Afghanistan
Despite the ban on female higher education, a unique online program is training 146 Afghan women to become doctors.
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Carnegie Mellon’s ill-considered damage control
What the university could have done better to protect academic freedom after a professor’s controversial tweet went viral.
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The view from the dean’s office
While my own academic freedom is less robust since becoming a senior administrator, I have loved finding new ways of defending academic freedom for others.
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University community reacts to Quebec’s new academic freedom bill
While some applaud the government’s approach, others find it lacking.
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Free speech on campus: The age-old debate rages on
Clashes over the limits of free speech continue to divide students and faculty.
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The theatrics of the Ford government regarding free speech on campus
Most with a working knowledge of higher education would agree we are nowhere near a free speech crisis in colleges and universities, let alone one justifying government intervention.
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First dispatch: Academic freedom and the mission of the university
A better understanding of the mission of universities, and of the role that academic freedom plays within that mission, puts us in a better position to support university scholars and the work that they do.
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The opportunity cost to doing scientific research at a university
Translational research should be scientist-driven and institutionally supported, not the other way around.
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Academic freedom: can history be our guide?
Over the years, academic freedom has been both recognized and constrained, based on the particular historical context.
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Jordan Peterson’s personal crusade against the postmodern left
His characterization of postmodernism, however, appears rather suspect.
