November 13, 2015After 15 months, two lawsuits, a chancellor's resignation, an academic censure and a boycott, the University of Illinois settled with Steven Salaita on Thursday. The price tag for the university’s...
November 12, 2015A settlement has been reached in Professor Steven Salaita’s case against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for firing him from his tenured position over his personal tweets criticizing...
November 12, 2015The University of Illinois said on Thursday that it would pay $875,000 to settle a lawsuit by a professor who lost out on a tenured position after he made Twitter postings critical of Israel. Steven...
November 11, 2015Steven Salaita reached a $875,000 settlement with the University of Illinois after he sued the school for firing him because of his tweets during the war on Gaza last year. The university fired...
November 12, 2015On an 8 to 1 vote… University of Illinois Trustees have signed off on an 875-thousand dollar settlement with Steven Salaita. The professor who lost his job offer at the U of I last year over a series...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will join other advocates and activists on a panel at the US Human Rights Network (USHRN)'s biannual national human rights conference Advancing Human Rights...
Updated: November 17, 2015
Join CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir to discuss "The Palestine Exception to Free Speech" alongside Radhika Sainath, Thomas DeAngelis, and Susie Abdelghafar. Speakers will discuss ...
Updated: November 17, 2015
November 12, 2015More than a year after firing Dr. Steven Salaita from a tenured faculty position for publishing personal tweets critical of Israel's 2014 military assault on Gaza, the University of Illinois at...
November 13, 2015The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has reached a settlement of $875,000 for firing a professor over his anti-Israel tweets. UIUC fired Steven Salaita for tweets criticizing “the...
November 14, 2015As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, “ Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom ,” on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday: the...
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