AFSA’s Weekly Wrap-Up
The week’s top news, views, vids, and other higher-ed reform highlights
Congress Mulls Interventions Over Antisemitism on Campus
If colleges can’t or won’t self-correct, corrections will be imposed by lawmakers.
Colleges Should Choose Free Speech Over Coddling This Election Season
Unwelcome election results aren’t an excuse to violate campus protest protocols
Civility Suddenly Breaks Out At Israel-Palestine Campus Debate
College students coming together to debate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without yelling, finger-wagging, sign-waving, or the customary venom and vitriol? How can that be? Well, not only can it be but it actually happened. And a reporter from Inside Higher Ed was on hand to record the moment for posterity. Here’s how Inside Higher-Ed set the […]
The History Erasers Come for John Witherspoon
Historic figures have become popular targets for posthumous “cancellations” in America. And that’s extremely convenient for their accusers, since the accused can’t easily defend their reputations, or put their life and times in fuller context, from beyond the grave. The same holds for the stone and metal monuments with which these notables are remembered. Statues, […]
Harvard Yard Has Become A Minefield
It’s hard for free speech to flourish in a climate of fear, enforced conformity, “groupthink” and strictly policed political correctness. It’s hard to speak and think freely, as a professor or a student, when any errant, unpopular, or unauthorized thought or phrase could get you canceled — when your campus becomes a minefield through which […]
What Can Be Learned From Campus Protests Of The Past?
Many of today’s college students may think the turmoil they see on campus is something new and unprecedented. But of course that’s not true. Things were at least as bad, and arguably even worse, during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s, which some look back on as the Golden Age of student protest. Are things worse […]
Berenson Headlines UNC-AFSA “Twitter Wars” Event
Author, blogger, and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson recently visited the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to discuss his battle to combat government censorship of social media content by the Biden Administration. The event was hosted by the University of North Carolina Alumni Free Speech Alliance, or UNC-AFSA, which was kind enough to […]
The Jefferson Council Welcomes New President
Outgoing President Tom Neale Will Continue to Lead as AFSA Chairman
Coddling Radicals Can Cost Schools Donors & Dollars
Columbia donors seem turned off by what they’re seeing on campus
