RooC: Posts the week of September 14 through September 18, 2009

Student Academic Freedom: The AAUP’s 1915 “Declaration of Principles”

Calvin College Student Newspaper Has More on the Trustee Ban against “advocacy by faculty and staff, both in and out of the classroom for homosexual practice and same-sex marriage”

Student Academic Freedom: the 1967 “Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students” and beyond

Institutional Academic Freedom and Church-Related Colleges and Universities

Academic freedom in America grows out of and depends on the collective action of professional disciplinary communities

Notre Dame President acknowledges divisions from Obama visit, announces pro-life initiatives

Catholic campus ministry in Rochester area

Academic freedom for faculty is a relative rather than absolute freedom

The series on Academic Freedom continues next week. I also plan to begin a new series on “How religious is the American professoriate?”

RooC: Posts the week of September 7 through September 11, 2009

Questions about Academic Freedom

Controversy swirls around the firing of the president of Wheeling Jesuit University

Academic Freedom and the AAUP’s 1915 “General Declaration of Principles”

Academic Freedom and the AAUP’s 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure

Yale University Press criticized for removing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in forthcoming book

Academic Freedom From and Freedom For

The series on Academic Freedom continues next week with posts on “Student Academic Freedom.”

RooC: Posts the week of August 31 through September 4, 2009

Recommended reading: Higher Ed and Religion between the American Civil War and World War I

Calvin College faculty want discussion on prohibition against advocating for homosexual issues

Recommended Reading: The Making of the Modern University and the Marginalization of Morality

Teaching evolution at an Adventist university

Calvin College’s Board of Trustees, advocacy of homosexual practices or same-sex marriage, and academic freedom (continued)

Patrick Henry College: Harvard for Homeschoolers?

Calvin College, trustee prohibitions, and faculty consultation (continued)

Recommended Reading: The Soul of the American University

Purge of Iranian Universities for “un-Islamic” teachings?

American Council of Trustees and Alumni: “Academic Freedom” and “Intellectual Diversity”

Scranton Bishop, critic of diocesan colleges and universities, resigns

Next week begins a series on Academic Freedom in America.