“Librarians” and “Pornography”
Carrieif@aol.com has drawn to the attention of the Intellectual Freedom Round Table listserv to the story Librarians Won’t Give Child ‘Porn’ Book on the web site for WTVQ-TV in Lexington, KY. The story...
View ArticleThe Way to Address Controversy
On September 9, I contributed a posting on the controversy over the Taylor and Francis Groups refusal to publish a special issue of The Journal of Homosexuality. I called their treatments of the...
View ArticleShameful Treatment of Scholars
A number of you will by now be familiar with this affair. This is my personal take on the situation. Dr. Beert Verstraete and Dr. John De Cecco guest-edited what was to have been a special issue of...
View ArticleFERPA, Student Privacy, and Parental Rights
FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, is a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. It applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program...
View ArticleAcademic Freedom at College of DuPage
College Freedom has a recent post about a proposed policy change at College of DuPage. Last Fall the college’s Board of Trustees shared a draft of changes that included language taken from David...
View ArticleOpen Access Limits Intellectual Freedom
I just ran across an editorial, Preserving Intellectual Freedom in Clinical Medicine, from Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics that was posted last October. Giovanni A. Fava raises a number of issues in...
View ArticleIsrael, Palestine, and Academic Freedom at Columbia University
Issues in the Middle East are once again affecting the academic environment at Columbia University. Columbia and Barnard faculty have written an open letter to the University’s president, Lee C....
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