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Academic Freedom

Bethune-Cookman Report Now Online

By Anita Levy

The Life and Death of Academic Freedom

By Ellen Messer-Davidow

BP, Corporate R&D, and the University

By Russ Lea

"Kneecapping" Academic Freedom

By Robert R. Kuehn and Peter A. Joy

Securing the Three-Legged Stool

By Paula Rabinowitz

Journal of Academic Freedom

The AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom publishes scholarship on academic freedom and on its relation to shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining. Scholarship on academic freedom is typically scattered across a wide range of disciplines; the Journal provides a central place to track the developing international discussion about academic freedom and its collateral issues.

New Academic Freedom Subcommittee

By Gwendolyn Bradley

Cuccinelli v. Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia, 283 Va. 420 (2010)

In a 2012 decision the Virginia Supreme Court rejected attempts by then Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to compel disclosure of university research records. Cuccinelli who publicly opposes the theory of global warming, used his position to formally request emails and other documents relating to former faculty member and climatologist Michael Mann from the University of Virginia (UVA) arguing that he had authority to subpoena these records pursuant to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (FATA). The Supreme Court of Virginia held that state universities, as agencies of the...

Academic Freedom, the Big Picture

By Gary Natriello

From the General Secretary: What if...?

By Gary Rhoades