Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
By Emma Whitford
20 April
It’s the first system policy that doesn’t fully exclude student work. Faculty warn it’s hardly the last step in the chancellor’s censorship effort.
After winning a spectacular legal claim against a Harvard University cancer centre, Eugenie Reich tells Jack Grove about the impact of the case, how universities ‘stonewall’ fraud allegations and why she quit journalism to help whistleblowers in science
Ivy League university also urged to look again at tuition costs, free speech rules and admissions policy after wide-ranging inquiry into declining public support
Institutions have said in court filings they aren’t confident in the data they submitted to the Education Department, and they worry they’ll face fines and other investigations.
The draft proposals, up for discussion this week, could change how accreditors oversee colleges and what they measure, but some say they violate existing federal law.
