On September 11, Barnard President Laura Rosenbury announced that Barnard would make a move toward institutional neutrality and refrain from issuing statements on “matters of public concern except to ...

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes framed the concept of the “free trade in ideas” in his famous 1919 dissent in Abrams v. United States. This theory of intellectual capitalism — commonly known as the ...

Rev. John I. Jenkins and I share concerns about the stifling of free speech on campus. But his commentary on institutional neutrality (“Institutional Neutrality Is a Copout,” The Chronicle Review, ...

Editor's note: This story is part of a series based on a survey of Duke faculty conducted by The Chronicle. You can read more about our methodology and limitations here, or read all of our survey ...

In recent months, a number of American universities have announced that they will now practice institutional neutrality, in which a university and its leaders refrain from taking public positions on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher education, innovation and civil discourse. Institutional neutrality—the practice by universities and their ...

Not only is “dialogue” a means of maintaining the status quo, but it is also a way to push it in a particular political direction.

Duke professors discussed trust in higher education, free speech on campus and institutional neutrality at a Saturday panel hosted by Friends for Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity at Duke.