Resources on Academic Freedom and Campus Free Speech
Wesleyan Statements and Policies
Faculty Handbook on Academic Freedom and Academic Freedom and Tenure
Faculty Handbook on Student’s Freedom to Learn
Student Handbook on Academic Freedom
President Roth’s Statement on Academic Freedom (Feb 2023)
Student Handbook Guidelines for Political Freedom and Disruptions (protests) on Campus
National AAUP Statements and Policies
AAUP Academic Freedom in Times of War (Oct 2023)
AAUP Academic Freedom and Outside Speakers (Nov 2023)
AAUP Polarizing Times Demand Robust Academic Freedom (Nov 2023)
AAUP Ensuring Academic Freedom In Politically Controversial Academic Personnel Decisions
AAUP Statement Censorship Will Not Defeat Antisemitism (Dec 2023)
AAUP Faculty Rights in the Classroom (2017)
AAUP Chapter Statements on Academic Freedom
Wesleyan AAUP Chapter Affirmation of Academic Freedom (Oct 2023)
Rutgers AAUP-AFT Executive Council Statement on the Climate on Campus and Academic Freedom (Dec 2023)
Penn AAUP Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom, University Governance, and Safety at the University of Pennsylvania (Oct 2023)
Columbia AAUP Statement on Academic Freedom in the Current Crisis (Dec 2023)
Digital and Online Safety
Equality Labs, Anti-Doxing Guide 3.0 (updated as of October 2023).
PEN America, Online Harassment Field Manual
Electronic Frontier Foundation, Surveillance Self-Defense
Distinguishing Anti-Semitism from Anti-Zionism
AAUP Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom: Redefinitions of Antisemitism and Racism (2022)
AAUP Widening Antisemitism Definition May Lead to Narrowing Education
The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism & Canadian Universities and Colleges: What You Need to Know (Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism, Racism, Colonialism & Censorship in Canada)
Jewish Voice for Peace On Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations
Palestine Legal and Jewish Voice for Peace on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism
Coalitional letter to the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights on student free speech and the weaponization of the IHRA definition
Islamophobia on Campus
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Countering and Dismantling Islamophobia
Middle East Studies Association, Exposing Canary Mission (2018)
Targeted Harassment of Faculty
Faculty First Responders, Understanding Right-Wing Attacks on Faculty
AAUP National, Fighting Targeted Harassment of Faculty and What You Can Do about Targeted Online Harassment
Legal and Protest Rights
Palestine Legal, Know Your Rights Student Handbook
National Lawyers Guild (NLG): Know Your Rights Webinar
Electronic Intifada: Know Your Rights: Students for Palestine
Jadaliyya teach-in, Gaza in Context: Know Your Rights: The Assault on Campus Activism
Other Resources
Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF), Campus Climate Resources
PEN America Campus Free Speech Resources
Ellen Schrecker, The Israel-Palestine War and Academic Freedom in Academe
Rutgers AAUP Academic Freedom Committee, “Defending Academic Freedom in a Threatening Climate” with New Jersey ACLU webinar
Joan W. Scott, On Free Speech and Academic Freedom, AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom (2017)
Rana Jaleel, Teaching Palestine, Academe (2016)