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If you want to speak up, you’d better be a saint
Princeton’s president wants to fire a tenured classics professor, but claims it’s not because he criticized “anti-racist” proposals,...

Joanne Jacobs
May 22, 20221 min read


‘Loyalty oaths’ return as ‘diversity statements’
Professors who want tenure or promotion at the University of Illinois will have to submit a statement declaring how they support...

Joanne Jacobs
May 21, 20222 min read


What I want
Via Powerline Blog

Joanne Jacobs
May 15, 20221 min read


The young Puritans
Overprotected by their parents, Gen Snowflake demands that college “make them comfortable,” argued Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment...

Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20222 min read


Causing discomfort remains legal
Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...

Joanne Jacobs
May 10, 20222 min read


Did feds solicit ‘parents as terrorists’ letter?
A National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter suggesting protesting parents may be guilty of “domestic terrorism” launched an FBI...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 16, 20221 min read
What About The 1st Amendment?
Remember that “free speech movement” that started in Berkeley? It didn’t stick: Middlebury College’s Student Government Association has...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 30, 20191 min read
It’s Not Just The President
In the wake of President Trump’s executive order last month to protect free speech or lose funding, some in higher education join the...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 27, 20191 min read


Spoiled children
A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 5, 20182 min read


Free speech trumps ‘offensiveness’
Oregon’s Liberty High School must respect a student’s free-speech rights to wear a “Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.”...

Joanne Jacobs
May 31, 20181 min read
Do We Have A Right *Not* To Be Offended In School?
Is this a 1st Amendment issue? Or does the school have a blanket policy against the wear of *any* seemingly-political messages on student...

Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20182 min read


Can school OK some protests, but not others?
If a school lets students walk out, without penalty, to protest gun violence, is it obliged to allow walkouts for other issues? What...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 15, 20181 min read


Don’t talk about guns — or square-root signs
A Louisiana teenager who joked that the square-root sign looks like a gun has been barred from school and faces an expulsion hearing,...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20181 min read


Can schools police social media? Should they?
A California girl was suspended from the basketball team for retweeting Snoop Dogg holding what appears to be a marijuana joint, reports...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 18, 20182 min read


Reed rebels — against ‘anti-racist’ disruptors
At Reed College, possibly the most liberal liberal-arts college in the country, first-year students are standing up to an “anti-racist”...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 4, 20173 min read


College fees fund controversial groups, speakers
Mandatory student fees that fund clubs and guest speakers are under scrutiny from the right and left at college campuses, writes Jon...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 3, 20171 min read


College kids want free speech to be nice
Less than half of college students know that “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment and some of those wish it weren’t, reports...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 19, 20172 min read


Is ‘land of opportunity’ offensive?
If college administrators aren’t going to train students and faculty in “cultural competence,” they should do it competently, writes...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 18, 20172 min read


Scores slip after ‘equity’ focus
“Racial equity” became the priority in Edina Public Schools (EPS), an affluent Minneapolis suburb, in 2013. Test scores are falling,...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 9, 20172 min read


Is free speech only for nice speech?
Thirty-nine percent of college students believe the First Amendment doesn’t protect hate speech and another 16 percent aren’t sure,...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 20, 20172 min read
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