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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

  • ‘We Are Horrified’: Academic Freedom at Risk With Uzbek Professor’s Arrest in Kazakhstan - The Diplomat – Asia-Pacific Current Affairs Magazine
    September 3, 2026
    ‘We Are Horrified’: Academic Freedom at Risk With Uzbek Professor’s Arrest in Kazakhstan  The Diplomat – Asia-Pacific Current Affairs Magazine
  • How 2 Texas Lawsuits Could Tee Up a National Fight Over Academic Freedom - Inside Higher Ed
    August 13, 2026
    How 2 Texas Lawsuits Could Tee Up a National Fight Over Academic Freedom  Inside Higher Ed
  • Florida’s Academic Freedom Problem Needs More Than Anecdotes - Daily Kos
    August 10, 2026
    Florida’s Academic Freedom Problem Needs More Than Anecdotes  Daily Kos
  • Unscholarly: Editorial on India's alarming decline in academic freedom - Telegraph India
    August 8, 2026
    Unscholarly: Editorial on India's alarming decline in academic freedom  Telegraph India
  • When political pressure trumps academic freedom - CEPR
    August 5, 2026
    When political pressure trumps academic freedom  CEPR
  • India’s academic freedom lowest since 1900—worse than during the Emergency - ThePrint
    August 4, 2026
    India’s academic freedom lowest since 1900—worse than during the Emergency  ThePrint
  • Mapped: Which Countries Have the Most Academic Freedom? - Visual Capitalist
    August 4, 2026
    Mapped: Which Countries Have the Most Academic Freedom?  Visual Capitalist
  • Duke, NC State to collaborate on academic freedom seminar series - The Duke Chronicle
    July 31, 2026
    Duke, NC State to collaborate on academic freedom seminar series  The Duke Chronicle
  • Opinion | Trump’s Gift to Academic Freedom? It’s Complicated. - The Chronicle of Higher Education
    July 29, 2026
    Opinion | Trump’s Gift to Academic Freedom? It’s Complicated.  The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled - Inside Higher Ed
    July 22, 2026
    Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled  Inside Higher Ed

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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