The UNC Board of Governors authorized a new definition of academic freedom on Thursday, a move that enshrines an explanation ...

Amid faculty protests, the public North Carolina system's governing board unanimously passed the policy change during its ...

How two competing definitions of "freedom" evolved over the last 250 years—and why they remain largely unreconcilable ...

The university system dropped proposed language saying teaching “clearly unrelated to the course description” wouldn’t be protected. The AAUP remained opposed.

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Academic freedom is “essential” to the mission of the UNC System, according to its code. But what does it actually protect? The UNC ...

There is a word for why we wear masks, wrote Michael Tomasky in The New York Times: "One of the key authors of the Western concept of freedom is John Stuart Mill. In ‘On Liberty,’ he wrote that ...

In 2024, the chair of the statewide University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly and the UNC state system embarked on a fraught mission at a fraught time: writing “a consensus definition” of academic ...

The board also voted to raise tuition for in-state undergraduate students for the first time in nine years at its Thursday ...

UNC board will vote in February on a new academic freedom definition for the system. Draft limits freedom by excluding unrelated course content and political advocacy. Faculty and AAUP warn vague ...