How a Professor Turned His Firing Into a Nationwide Fight for Academic Freedom
By Emma Whitford••Inside Higher Ed
How a Professor Turned His Firing Into a Nationwide Fight for Academic Freedom Emma Whitford Thu, 05/07/2026 - 03:00 AM Tom Alter was fired from his tenured job at Texas State last fall in what free speech advocates call an egregious violation of Fir…
NEW YORK, N.Y.By six oclock on Monday, April 27, the City University of New York Graduate Centers aptly named Skylight Room was humming with dozens of graduate students, professors and staff eager to…