Academic Freedom

Upcoming Events

March 26th, 12-1pm PST The Politics of Instituitonal Neutrality in Trump's America: ambiguity, fear, and the effort to silence American higher education

In their recent article, Curtis Brewer and Michelle D. Young use critical policy analysis to examine the strategy of institutional neutrality and its relationship to the longstanding agenda of US conservatives to limit the societal and political influence of higher education within society. Specifically, they posit that policy ambiguity creates fertile ground for fear-based narratives to shape institutional meaning making...

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PEER REVIEW IN ACADEMIC PROMOTION AND PUBLISHING: ITS MEANING, LOCUS, AND FUTURE.

2011

Since 2005, and with generous support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, The Future of Scholarly Communication Project at UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) has been exploring how academic values—including those related to peer review, publishing, sharing, and collaboration—influence scholarly communication practices and engagement with new technological affordances, open access publishing, and the public good. The current phase of the project focuses on peer review in...

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CSHE Scholar John Aubrey Douglass Quoted in NYT Piece on Trump-Harvard Case

May 27, 2025

“While Harvard is the victim of the moment, it’s a warning and unprecedented attempt of a hostile federal government to erode the autonomy of all major universities in the U.S.,” said John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/harvard-trump-international-students-impac…