The 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 ...

As 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 ...

In the summer of 2014, professor Steven Salaita became the center of a national controversy when his job offer at the University of Illinois was rescinded as a result of his vicious tweets about ...

The Board of Trustees has authorized an $875,000 settlement with Steven Salaita, the man who has been the center of many University conversations over the last 14 months. A University press release ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? On November 12, Professor Steven Salaita settled his case against the ...

A month ago, when I reported that the University of Illinois had apparently hired and then fired professor Steven Salaita because of his anti-Israel tweets, the UI administration wasn’t talking. It ...

In Mark Dery’s piece on Mark Crispin Miller, “The Professor of Paranoia” (The Chronicle Review, May 12), Dery writes that “Steven Salaita — whose tenured-faculty appointment at the University of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On Tuesday, Steven Salaita, an American author, scholar and activist, spoke about his latest book, ...

Steven Salaita, an outspoken former Virginia Tech professor, says he is leaving academia after he had difficulty finding a job. Salaita, who graduated from Radford University and is a Bluefield native ...

Three years after Steven Salaita lost a promised tenured position in American Indian studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign over the tone of his anti-Israel tweets, he’s leaving ...

In 2014, Steven Salaita’s venomous tweets about Israel cost him his tenured faculty appointment at the University of Illinois. Five years later, he is working as a school bus driver in suburban ...

As debates roil over free speech on American college campuses and as mechanisms that critique Israeli policies continue to divide, the universe delivered a perfect enmeshing of both stories in the ...