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Author: Cheve Tolbert

Andrew Kloster Gives Good Advice: First Amendment Rights

Andrew Kloster, a legal colleague at the Heritage Foundation, gives good advice to students about their First Amendment rights. Speaking to students on a university in Oklahoma Kloster addresses many issues with colleges restricting Free Speech.

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Posted on April 18, 2013April 21, 2013 by Cheve TolbertPosted in Legal

Kentucky On the Fence for Free Speech

Kentucky has recently been consider a risk for free speech on campus. It has gotten a “yellow” raiting which is one away from a bad rating. The student organizations decided to organize and build a free speecch wall on campus.

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Posted on April 18, 2013 by Cheve TolbertPosted in Uncategorized

Academic Freedom

Teddy Roosevelt picture from Duke University.
Teddy Roosevelt speaks at Duke University, 1903: “You stand for Academic Freedom, for the right of private judgment, for a duty more incumbent upon the scholar than upon any other man, to tell the truth as he sees it, to claim for himself and to give to others the largest liberty in seeking after the truth.” - US President Teddy Roosevelt, 1903

Current events

  • Political interference, prosecutions erode academic freedom in Turkey: report - Stockholm Center for Freedom
    September 23, 2026
    Political interference, prosecutions erode academic freedom in Turkey: report  Stockholm Center for Freedom
  • Florida Is No. 1 in Academic Freedom, Says Heritage Education Report Card - The Daily Signal
    September 21, 2026
    Florida Is No. 1 in Academic Freedom, Says Heritage Education Report Card  The Daily Signal
  • Conference "Academic Freedom in Action 2026" - coe.int
    September 21, 2026
    Conference "Academic Freedom in Action 2026"  coe.int
  • University of Wyoming optimistic on academic freedom despite censorship lawsuit naming new president - WyoFile
    September 21, 2026
    University of Wyoming optimistic on academic freedom despite censorship lawsuit naming new president  WyoFile
  • IIT Bombay professor on academic freedom and the need to question established ideas - India Today
    September 20, 2026
    IIT Bombay professor on academic freedom and the need to question established ideas  India Today
  • WashU's 'Academic Freedom' series features far-left activists, including communist VP candidate - Campus Reform
    September 19, 2026
    WashU's 'Academic Freedom' series features far-left activists, including communist VP candidate  Campus Reform
  • UCLA chancellor faces faculty outcry over 9/11 statement, a test of academic freedom - Los Angeles Times
    September 18, 2026
    UCLA chancellor faces faculty outcry over 9/11 statement, a test of academic freedom  Los Angeles Times
  • US higher ed faces mounting attacks on academic freedom, report warns - Higher Ed Dive
    September 18, 2026
    US higher ed faces mounting attacks on academic freedom, report warns  Higher Ed Dive
  • India's academic freedom severely restricted, claims report - Rediff
    September 16, 2026
    India's academic freedom severely restricted, claims report  Rediff
  • India’s academic freedom ‘severely restricted’ under BJP government: report - The Hindu
    September 16, 2026
    India’s academic freedom ‘severely restricted’ under BJP government: report  The Hindu

More current events

From shuttered print editions to firings, student journalists clash with universities March 21, 2026 https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2026/0321/student-journalism-first-amendment

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