Academic Freedom Media Review

March 19-26, 2010
Compiled by Scholars at Risk

Wide-ranging’ inquiry urged on higher education future
BBC News, 3/26

China bans poet from traveling to US conference
Associated Press, 3/25

Principles of scientific advice
Hannah Devlin, The Times Online, 3/24

2 Formerly Excluded Scholars Coming to U.S.
Inside Higher Ed, 3/24

Back in the U.S., South African Scholar Urges End to Policy That Had Kept Him Out
Peter Schmidt, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/24

U. of Akron Dismisses Adjunct Who Resigned Last Fall in a Policy Protest
Jill Laster, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/23

University cuts start to bite
Louise Tickle and Owen Bowcott, The Guardian, 3/23

Academic-Freedom Advocates Are Handed a Win in Ohio Ruling
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/22

Stanford Medical School to Expand Ethics Rules
Natasha Singer, The New York Times, 3/21
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/health/policy/22docs.html?hpw

LEBANON: Professor condemned for scholarly work with Israeli counterparts
Becky Lee Katz and Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times, 3/19