Learn More Reading Suggestions

• "Across the Country, Faculty Fight to Defend Academic Freedom" by Ellen Schrecker
• UFS Statement on Academic Freedom, The City University of New York (CUNY)
• Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians, ACRL
• "The Increasingly Authoritarian War on Tenure" by Jennifer Ruth
• "The False Equivalence of Academic Freedom and Free Speech" by Farhana Sultana
• "How to Update Your Book Challenge Forms (with Template)" by Kelly Jensen

Proactively Protect Academic Freedom

• Strengthen Faculty Contracts
• AFT’s Academic Freedom in the 21st Century: College and University (see p. 18-19)
• Pass a Faculty Senate Resolution Defending Academic Freedom
• AAUP Educational Gag Orders: Legislative Interference in Teaching About Race
• AAUP Template Academic Senate Resolution

Take Care of Yourself & Your Peers

• Publicly attacked or doxxed? Help resources:
  
• Faculty First Responders, in addition to educating, this project provides advice about how to effectively respond to attacks
• Trolling Attacks on Scholars, Faculty Action from University of Illinois (Note: state laws regarding recording in classrooms differ)
• Online Harassment Field Manual (PEN America), offers concrete strategies for how to defend yourself and others