AFA Newsletters

January Update from the AFA Thank you to all of our members and supporters who donated for our 2024 end of year campaign. While we didn’t reach our $100,000 goal, we got close thanks to your generosity. We’re coming off of an excellent year in 2024 in which we won six...

November Update from the AFA Today marks “Giving Tuesday” and we hope that you will consider the AFA if you are donating to a cause this year. As we approach our fifth year, the AFA has awarded over $400,000 in direct funding for legal assistance. This total has...

October Update from the AFA The AFA continues our work on several existing cases and is also exploring additional requests for assistance. In the meantime, below are updates from the month of October. Keith Whittington Sits Down with John Tomasi How does political...

September Update from the AFA Wins on Institutional Neutrality In February of this year, we began a partnership with FIRE and the Heterodox Academy to call for more universities to adopt policies of institutional neutrality on social and political issues. We renewed...

August Update from the AFA Controversy Over AAUP Statement As many of you know, the American Association of University Professors came under fire this month after it declared academic boycotts to be “legitimate tactical responses” and “not in themselves violations of...

July Update from the AFA Our Call to End DEI Statements in Grant Funding On July 18, the AFA released a major new guidance statement calling on federal agencies that fund research in STEMM fields to desist from requiring DEI statements in their grant proposals....

June Update from the AFA Successful Resolution of Case at USC On June 20, we announced the favorable resolution of our case in defense of John Strauss, a professor at the University of Southern California who was accused of harassment by student protestors after he...

May Update from the AFA The AFA has been hard at work throughout May on our existing cases, as well as reviewing several additional support requests from professors under fire for speech or conduct. While we took up a new case this week, the details are not yet...

April Update from the AFA New Hearing in Dr. Joyner’s Case Against the Mayo Clinic On April 8th, Dr. Michael Joyner’s legal team, which is funded by the AFA, squared off in court against the Mayo Clinic in a new pretrial hearing. The hearing came in response to the...

March Update from the AFA The AFA celebrated its third anniversary this month with a number of new actions on behalf of faculty under fire for protected speech. In addition to the below mentioned cases, we are currently investigating three new incidents to determine...