This essay discusses how the State of Indiana is reshaping academic freedom and tenure protection by the mandates enacted in Indiana’s Senate Enrolled Act no. 202 (SEA 202) and House Enrolled Act no.

Financial activism in higher education—whether exercised through academic boycotts or donor influence—exposes persistent tensions between academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Academic boycotts ...

In the 1980s, my family went on expensive vacations funded by Big Pharma. Extravagant gifts were later banned by guidelines introduced by national medical associations in response to mounting evidence ...

For more than two decades libertarian billionaires have made donations to universities to establish academic centers as part of an effort to restructure society around the notion of “individual ...

Public funding for higher education has declined steadily over the past several decades. As a result, colleges and universities increasingly rely on private donations. This shift forces institutions ...

Philanthropy in music education is frequently championed by institutions and donors as a benevolent force that expands student opportunities. However, this essay interrogates the structural inequities ...

At this polarized moment, universities must guard against any appearance of student indoctrination, lest they risk external interventions that would deprive their faculty of academic freedom. In this ...

In many parts of the world, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, universities are confronted with the challenges of dependence on public resources within neoliberal contexts characterized by state ...

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) encounter critical academic freedom challenges due to increasing reliance on private funding. This dependency results from decades-long systematic ...

The increasing reliance on private donors in higher education has raised serious concerns about transparency, faculty governance, and academic integrity. As state and federal funding declines, ...

This essay examines the institutional architecture of censorship in US higher education during geopolitical crisis, with emphasis on the suppression of pro-Palestinian advocacy. Inspired by Edward ...

Rights, liberties, and freedoms are never secure when they lie dormant or unused. A false sense of security in presumably safe freedoms exists partly because institutional policies give such freedoms ...