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The Academic Freedom Nebraska Case Repository
The Academic Freedom Nebraska Case Repository is a searchable collection of Nebraska cases involving or threatening intellectual freedom in academic contexts. Only a few of the cases are legal cases but all are specific incidents. This project is a collaboration between Metalogic and the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska (AFCON), a coalition of Nebraska organizations concerned with intellectual freedom in academic contexts, including freedoms of belief, expression, teaching, learning, inquiry, publication, and access to information and ideas. The repository can be browsed using the following keywords:
· issue (e.g., curriculum, research, book censorship, student press);
· course/topic (e.g., history, religion, sexuality, violence, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+);
· type of institution (K-12 education, higher education, library);
· target (e.g., teacher, student, researcher);
· time period (cases range from 1870 to 2024);
· place (Lincoln, Omaha, and many others);
· or any combination of these categories (e.g., race/ethnicity in K-12 education).
We hope this resource will be useful to anyone interested in teaching, learning, or writing about intellectual freedom in matters of education or research. We are happy to hear from anyone with knowledge about these cases or about others that should be added. If you have questions, comments, suggestions, additions, or corrections, email David Moshman at dmoshman1@unl.edu.
