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VICTORY: UMass Boston quietly removes DEI requirements from faculty applications

The University of Massachusetts Boston has eliminated mandates for faculty applicants to express particular views about diversity, equity, and inclusion after months of back-and-forth with ������ýapp�ٷ�.

VICTORY: Troy University affirms commitment to academic freedom

FIREwrote Troy University about a leaked email exchange between Troy trustees that suggested interference with faculty’s academic freedom.

Leaked emails: Troy trustees suggest they’ll pressure faculty to keep company bigwigs, legislators, happy

University chancellor to discuss how school’s Center for Political Economy vets topics appropriate for its staff to research.

VICTORY: Stanford adopts FIRErecommendation, will no longer notify students accused of engaging in protected speech 

On the heels of its other recent free speech commitments, Stanford revises its bias reporting system to better promote a culture of free expression

University of Utah anti-racism policy forces faculty to ‘eradicate’ words from teaching, curriculum

University of Utah’s Department of Communication is barring faculty from communicating disfavored words and ideas under its Anti-Racist Code of Conduct that requires the “eradication” of certain speech from teaching and curricula.

FIRE, NCAC object after State College of Florida censors art exhibit 

The State College of Florida Bradenton requested a traveling art exhibition to remove pieces with the words “diversity,” “inclusion,” “justice,” and “equality."

Cal State Monterey Bay: FIREshould ‘think broadly’ about ways to report professors for ‘subtle’ racism

The guide’s language will chill faculty speech, as faculty might rationally conclude they should self-censor to avoid any possibility of being reported for perceived racial slights.

Stanford says it’s not punishing the student photographed reading ‘Mein Kampf.’ Here’s why that’s not good enough. 

University responds to ������ýapp�ٷ�’s letter by insisting that no student is being “punished or investigated for reading a book,” instead citing concerns raised by other students about a social media photo.

Amid death threats and harassment, University of Chicago professor reschedules ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ course

Folding under pressure, University of California San Diego suspends professor for protected comments

FIREwarned UCSD that its suspension of a chemistry professor for in-class comments about the Latino and Chicano communities threatens the professor’s free speech rights.