It’s Not Much Fun to Lose Your Name. February 14, 2012.
Historic Michigan Campaign Under Way. February 3, 2012.
AAUP Statement on Indiana Right-to-Work Law. February 2, 2012.
The Perils of Outside Control. May 11, 2011.
Anti-Semitism on Campus. April 20, 2011. By Cary Nelson and Kenneth Stern, American Jewish Committee’s director on anti-semitism and extremism.
What Faculty Unions Do. March 12, 2011.
Ohio is at War. February 17, 2011.
American Fatwa. January 31, 2011.
Advocacy and Faculty Rights. January 28, 2011.
Letter to Philip Patston, chair of the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Senate Executive Committee, regarding the recent decision of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees to deny emeritus status to Professor Bill Ayers. October 22, 2010.
Scientific Data Must Be Released. August 3, 2010.
Academic Freedom in Pennsylvania. June 25, 2010.
Academic Freedom and Religion. May 10, 2010.
Speaker Cancellation. September 28, 2009.
Working to End At-Whim Employment of Contingent Faculty. August 27, 2009.
The Challenge of the John Yoo Case. August 21, 2009. Complete text. A shorter version was published in the New York Times.
Academic Freedom Abridged at Yale Press. August 13, 2009.
Admissions at Illinois. August 11, 2009.
Justice and Due Process For Graduate Student Employees. August 11, 2009.
AAUP President Cary Nelson speaks out about the violence in Iran. June 23, 2009.
Monsters With Constituencies. April 2, 2009. This open letter also appeared in Inside Higher Ed on April 2, 2009.