The UNC Board of Governors authorized a new definition of academic freedom on Thursday, a move that enshrines an explanation ...

How two competing definitions of "freedom" evolved over the last 250 years—and why they remain largely unreconcilable ...

The board also voted to raise tuition for in-state undergraduate students for the first time in nine years at its Thursday ...

The university system dropped proposed language saying teaching “clearly unrelated to the course description” wouldn’t be protected. The AAUP remained opposed.

The New Oxford American Dictionary definition of freedom is the “power or right to act, speak or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.” What is your definition? What does the word ...

The UNC System Board of Governors wasted little time on Thursday in approving a definition for academic freedom that has been ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Academic freedom is “essential” to the mission of the UNC System, according to its code. But what does it actually protect? The UNC ...

There is a word for why we wear masks, wrote Michael Tomasky in The New York Times: "One of the key authors of the Western concept of freedom is John Stuart Mill. In ‘On Liberty,’ he wrote that ...