Volume 15

Faculty Coeditors
Michael Dreiling (University of Oregon) and Pedro García-Caro (University of Oregon)

Staff Editor
Kelly Hand

Editorial Assistant
Austin Rhea

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Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction: Truth-Telling and Propaganda
By Michael Dreiling and Pedro García-Caro

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Freedom

The Art of Truth in the Social Media Age
By Amir Hussain

The Economics of Disinformation: Academic Freedom in the Era of AI
By Jorge Zumaeta

Artificial Intelligence, Academic Freedom, and the Evolving Debate over Forgery and Truth in the Twenty-First Century
By Natasha N. Johnson, Thaddeus L. Johnson, and Denise McCurdy

Paradoxes of Generative AI and the Simultaneous Promise and Threat to Academic Freedom
By Derek Dubois

Claudine Gay, Plagiarism, and AI
By William Arighi

Authoritarianism and Academic Freedom

Rising Antidemocracy, Declining Academic Freedom, and Challenges to Evidence-Based Knowledge
By Eve Darian-Smith

Academic Freedom and Society: Intellectual Critique or Violent Revolution?
By Ross Jackson, Jacqueline Heath, and Brian Heath

Academic (Un)freedom in Iran after 1979: (Transnational) State Suppression of Academia and Risks for (Diasporic) Academics
By Ladan Rahbari

Gender and Academic Freedom

Gender Identity, Ohio Politics, and Academic Freedom: A Critical Discourse Analysis to Expose Disinformation
By Dana Oleskiewicz, Janice Kroeger, and Erica Pelz

The Interplay of Power, Incentives, Academic Freedom, and Gender Equity
By Alice Wieland and Amy Jansen

Legislative Targets on Black History

Silencing Wingless Truth: Confronting the Suppression of Academic Freedom and Black Liberation in America
By Gerald D. Smith Jr. and J. R. Caldwell Jr.

A Precedent Set: Understanding the Florida Assault on Academic Freedom Targeting Black History and the Impact on Leadership Development
By Kimberly Hardy

Philosophical Frameworks, Truth-Telling, and Academic Freedom

Let’s Recommit to Just and Democratic Truth-Telling Practices
By Brenda Solomon

Social Justice Education, Academic Freedom, and the First Amendment
By Gene Straughan

Academic Standards in an Age of Mistrust
By Dennis Arjo