The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach(nytimes.com)
10 points by mikhael | 0 comments
New York Times article about MIT paying professor Michel DeGraff not to teach a controversial course related to Palestine.
#academic-freedom on Hacker News
5 stories tagged academic-freedom, newest first.
Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes(harvard.edu)
1191 points by impish9208 | 1076 comments
Harvard President's statement 'The Promise of American Higher Education' responding to a federal government letter demanding policy changes at the university.
A university president makes a case against cowardice(newyorker.com)
447 points by pseudolus | 712 comments
New Yorker Q&A with Wesleyan president Michael Roth arguing colleges need not capitulate to Trump Administration pressure over student activism.
Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation(live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io)
951 points by anticorporate | 224 comments
Whistleblower Aid news release alleging Harvard dismantled a team studying the Facebook Files after a $500M Chan Zuckerberg Initiative donation.
Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta(washingtonpost.com)
430 points by ta988 | 448 comments
Washington Post article reporting that misinformation researcher Joan Donovan alleges in a whistleblower complaint that Harvard ousted her to appease Meta.