Stony Brook University professor Anna Hayward received a public denunciation from the University after posting a controversial social media comment about a police-involved shooting. In response, a group of eight faculty members held a teach-in about the policing of free speech.
In a controversy testing the limits of academic freedom, the State University of New York joined more than more than 100 academic institutions last December in condemning the American Studies Association for its approval of an academic boycott of Israel.
