Natsu Saito, Chair of the Academic Freedom Committee

The Academic Freedom Committee has focused on current efforts to stifle political dissent in higher education, and with the related efforts to regulate curriculum and privatize public education. The Committee has monitored politically motivated firings and tenure denials, and is drafting a general policy statement.

For a fuller discussion of SALT's Academic Freedom Committee, click here.

We urge SALT members to notify us of retaliatory actions taken against scholars, teachers, clinics, or race,ethnicity, gender, or peace studies programs.

September 19, 2007 Statement Regarding Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California School of Law, Irvine

June 2007 SALT Statement on Professor Ward Churchill, University of Colorado

February 2005 Letter Regarding Professor Ward Churchill, University of Colorado