The Chronicle Review

How the Right Weaponized Free Speech

The ability to express one's opinion, no matter how unfounded or false, has become the test of free speech. Knowledge is the casualty.

Special Reports

Need to Know What the Free-Speech Wars Mean for Faculty?

In a time of political tensions, the stakes are high. Read a collection of Chronicle articles on why professors end up in the political cross-hairs — and what their colleges can do about it.

From the Archives

How Free Speech Works for White Academics

They are given a platform for their ideas, even when it is clear that the ideas don’t measure up.

Administration

Berkeley Breaks Silence on Arrest of Undocumented Student

Carol Christ, chancellor of the University of California's flagship campus, said in a statement that administrators are "taking all appropriate actions" so that Luis Mora can eventually continue his coursework.

Faculty

How Colleges Ignite Civic Engagement

Voter drives, community organizing, service learning, and new course offerings connect them with the world beyond the campus gates.

Students

After Pledge's Death, Fraternity Is Banned for 10 Years in Pennsylvania

Four men involved in the hazing incident, in which a pledge at Baruch College was brutally beaten in the Pocono Mountains, were sentenced to prison terms lasting as long as two years.

On Leadership

Inside One College President's Plan to Confront 'The Biases of the Professoriate'

"We can't just rely on championing free speech as if its a free market," says Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan College, who is himself an intellectual historian.

The Daily Briefing

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Commentary

Let’s End Hazing Deaths Now

Change is difficult, but college presidents must confront fraternities’ secrecy and excesses to put an end to needless tragedies.

Lingua Franca

Of Women, Men, and Glasses of Wine

Beginning a sojourn in France, Lucy Ferriss encounters the gendering of nouns in French, which may well change the way she looks at the world.