academic freedom

  1. November 15, 2024

    Speaker highlights risks to extramural speech protections

    Recent measures to impede campus protests around the country are a threat to academic freedom and extramural speech, Judith Butler said in the Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  2. November 4, 2024

    Academic freedom lecture to address extramural speech

    Judith Butler, a philosopher and gender studies scholar, will deliver the Faculty Senate’s 34th annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  3. February 21, 2024

    Senate Assembly passes resolution on academic freedom, harassment

    The Senate Assembly has approved a resolution supporting academic freedom and asking U-M to expand support for faculty experiencing harassment.

  4. January 12, 2024

    SACUA states support for UM‑Flint tenured faculty

    The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs has formally stated its support for tenured UM-Flint faculty members in the wake of recent suggestions that layoffs may be considered.

  5. January 12, 2024

    SACUA statement in support of tenure at UM-Flint

    Statement issued by the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs regarding the possibility of tenured-faculty layoffs at UM-Flint.

  6. November 12, 2023

    Academic freedom lecturer addresses censorship threats

    Jonathan Friedman of PEN America highlighted the impact on higher education of increased legislation censoring the teaching of race, gender and sexuality in public schools.

  7. October 30, 2023

    Academic Freedom Lecture to feature free‑expression advocate

    Free-expression advocate Jonathan Friedman will give the keynote address at the Faculty Senate’s Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  8. February 7, 2023

    Academic freedom lecturer addresses teaching of racial history

    New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie delivered the 32nd annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom with a talk titled “Revisiting Du Bois and ‘The Propaganda of History.’”

  9. January 30, 2023

    Academic Freedom Lecture to feature N.Y. Times columnist

    Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times, will give the keynote address at the Faculty Senate’s 32nd annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  10. March 14, 2022

    Palestinian discourse cited as example of free-speech erosion

    Censorship of discourse about Palestine on college campuses and elsewhere was the topic at U-M’s Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.