Two Victories for Academic Freedom (10.1007/s12129-019-09792-7)
Peter Bonilla, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
Peter Bonilla tells the heartening story of two recent court cases that resulted in legal victories for the protection of free speech rights of faculty on college campuses. In one case a federal court addressing a public university and in another a state’s highest court addressing a private university upheld free speech protections for faculty members sanctioned for expressing views their administrations disliked.
The Confucius Institutes (10.1007/s12129-019-09783-8)
Rachelle Peterson, National Association of Scholars
Confucius Institutes—which present themselves as exemplars of cultural exchange with the U.S., but in reality allow China to monitor American professors, pressure universities, and seek out opportunities for academic espionage—have had a large role in Chinese attempts to influence U.S. institutions. As Rachelle Peterson reports, the National Association of Scholars has had a
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