/tags/intellectual-freedom intellectual freedom en-US SA国际传谋 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:00:00 GMT /government-politics/2026-02-13/florida-new-introduction-sociology-textbook-college The controversial new Introduction to Sociology textbook, created by the state of Florida to meet its new academic restrictions, is missing entire chapters like Race and Ethnicity, Global Inequality and Gender, Sex and Sexuality, SA国际传谋 found. "What was put on our shoulders was saving our discipline and saving our colleagues' jobs,鈥� said a sociologist who helped create the book. Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:00:00 GMT /government-politics/2026-02-13/florida-new-introduction-sociology-textbook-college Daniel Rivero /education/2023-04-06/anxiety-among-professors-as-desantis-pushes-conservative-firebrand-for-fau-president The search for the next president of Florida Atlantic University hasn't officially begun yet. But Gov. Ron DeSantis' office has already floated the name of a Republican state lawmaker as a "good candidate" for the job. That has some professors concerned about the integrity of the search process. Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:30:00 GMT /education/2023-04-06/anxiety-among-professors-as-desantis-pushes-conservative-firebrand-for-fau-president Kate Payne /education/2022-07-11/state-files-motion-to-exclude-former-education-commissioner-in-intellectual-freedom-case The state is asking a federal judge to shield former Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran from testifying in a battle about a 2021 law requiring surveys of 鈥渋ntellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity鈥� on college and university campuses. Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:03:13 GMT /education/2022-07-11/state-files-motion-to-exclude-former-education-commissioner-in-intellectual-freedom-case Jim Saunders | News Service of Florida /news/2022-04-06/judge-allows-intellectual-freedom-lawsuit-to-move-forward A day after the state began surveys to measure 鈥渋ntellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity鈥� on college and university campuses, a federal judge Tuesday refused to dismiss a constitutional challenge to a 2021 law that spurred the surveys. Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:18:10 GMT /news/2022-04-06/judge-allows-intellectual-freedom-lawsuit-to-move-forward News Service of Florida /news/2021-11-24/uf-report-calls-for-a-strong-presumption-that-professors-can-testify-in-cases-involving-the-state The university's report follows an outcry about the school blocking professors from testifying in a challenge to a controversial elections law. Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:29:10 GMT /news/2021-11-24/uf-report-calls-for-a-strong-presumption-that-professors-can-testify-in-cases-involving-the-state Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida /news/2021-09-17/state-seeks-to-nix-a-challenge-to-floridas-intellectual-freedom-law Saying plaintiffs have offered a 鈥減arade of horribles,鈥� attorneys for the state want a federal judge to toss out a challenge to a new law that requires conducting surveys on Florida college and university campuses about 鈥渋ntellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity.鈥� Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:09:25 GMT /news/2021-09-17/state-seeks-to-nix-a-challenge-to-floridas-intellectual-freedom-law The News Service of Florida /local-news/2021-01-27/bill-requiring-universities-to-survey-students-on-intellectual-freedom-passes-first-stop Legislation that would survey university students on whether competing ideas and perspectives are presented and welcomed on campus passed its first committee stop today. Sen. Ray Rodrigues (R-Fort Myers) says the bill is needed to ensure students are hearing competing viewpoints. Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:55:16 GMT /local-news/2021-01-27/bill-requiring-universities-to-survey-students-on-intellectual-freedom-passes-first-stop Blaise Gainey