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  Academic freedom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic institutions to pursue knowledge wherever it may lead, without undue or unreasonable interference.
Academic tenure protects academic freedom by ensuring that teachers can be fired only for adequate cause, such as gross professional incompetence or behavior that evokes condemnation from the academic community itself.
Proponents of academic freedom believe that the freedom of inquiry by students and faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academic_freedom   (1608 words)

  
 SAF: The Academic Bill of Rights
Therefore, academic freedom is most likely to thrive in an environment of intellectual diversity that protects and fosters independence of thought and speech.
Academic freedom consists in protecting the intellectual independence of professors, researchers and students in the pursuit of knowledge and the expression of ideas from interference by legislators or authorities within the institution itself.
Academic institutions and professional societies formed to advance knowledge within an area of research, maintain the integrity of the research process, and organize the professional lives of related researchers serve as indispensable venues within which scholars circulate research findings and debate their interpretation.
www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org /abor.html   (772 words)

  
 I Academic Freedom
Academic freedom in its teaching aspect is fundamental for the protection of the rights of the teacher in teaching, and of the student to freedom in learning.
Freedom and economic security, hence tenure, are indispensable to the success of an institution in fulfilling its obligations to its students and to society.
The teacher is entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of the results, subject to the adequate performance of his/her other academic duties; but research for pecuniary return should be based upon an understanding with the authorities of the institution.
www.ohio.edu /facultysenate/handbook/I-Academic-Freedom.cfm   (2321 words)

  
 academic freedom. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In the case of scholars, whose occupation is directly involved with that right, the concept of academic freedom generally includes the property right of tenure of office (see tenure, in education).
A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.
The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment, mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.
www.bartleby.com /65/ac/academic.html   (461 words)

  
 Michael Bérubé, International Professor of Danger
Academic freedom is under attack for pretty much the same reasons that liberalism itself is under attack.
THE PRINCIPLE OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM stipulates that “teachers are entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of the results, subject to the adequate performance of their other academic duties”; it expressly insists that professors should have autonomy from legislatures, trustees, alumni, parents, and ecclesiastical authorities with regard to their teaching and research.
But today, the paradox of these legislative “academic bills of rights” is this: they claim to defend academic freedom precisely by promising to give the state direct oversight of course curricula, of departmental hiring practices, and of the intellectual direction of academic fields.
www.michaelberube.com /index.php/weblog/academic_freedom   (4057 words)

  
 AAUP-1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure With 1970 Interpretive Comments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Teachers are entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of the results, subject to the adequate performance of their other academic duties; but research for pecuniary return should be based upon an understanding with the authorities of the institution.
Limitations of academic freedom because of religious or other aims of the institution should be clearly stated in writing at the time of the appointment.
Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with leading educational associations and with individual faculty members and administrators, a joint committee of the AAUP and the Association of American Colleges met during 1969 to reevaluate this key policy statement.
www.aaup.org /statements/Redbook/1940stat.htm   (2887 words)

  
 Academic Freedom and Tenure:A Faculty Perspective
Such freedom shall be recognized as a right of all members of the faculty, whether of tenure or non-tenure rank, of all administrative officers and of all students.Academic freedom protections for all faculty, full-time, part-time and contract (non-tenured), are necessary to ensure that the quality of education that community college students receive is beyond reproach.
Tenure is essential to the protection and preservation of academic freedom - the freedom to teach and the freedom to learn - and is thereby indispensable to the success of higher education in fulfilling its obligations to its students and to society.
Academic freedom in the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge through all media shall be maintained at the West Valley-Mission Community College District.
www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us /Publications/Papers/Tenure.htm   (9239 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Academic Freedom Initiative
The academic freedom program aims to monitor, expose, and mobilize concerted action to challenge threats to academic freedom worldwide, and to foster greater scholarly and media attention to the critical role played by institutions of higher education in the promotion of human rights and the development and preservation of civil society.
Academic freedom work at Human Rights Watch is based on the recognition that such violations have received too little attention in the international human rights community.
The academic freedom program seeks to address this deficiency through casework on behalf of embattled academics, collaborative efforts with other human rights organizations and concerned professional associations, thematic research and reports, and publication of an annual overview of violations in the Human Rights Watch World Report.
www.hrw.org /advocacy/academic   (271 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Securing Academic Freedom on Campus by Mark Bauerlein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Academic freedom doesn't precede the contract, nor does it belong exclusively to the faculty.
Academic freedom isn't the property of the faculty.
It is time to expand academic freedom to all constituents of the campus, and to set it forth as a democratic ideal that every citizen has a stake in defending.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12452   (991 words)

  
 Statement on Academic Freedom at BYU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There are at least three reasons why the institutional academic freedom of religious institutions should be protected: to maintain institutional pluralism, to be consistent with the antidogmatic principles of academic freedom, and to safeguard religious freedom.
Individual freedom of expression is broad, presumptive, and essentially unrestrained except for matters that seriously and adversely affect the university mission or the Church.
The faculty is entrusted with broad individual academic freedom to pursue truth according to the methodologies and assumptions that characterize scholarship in various disciplines.
www.byu.edu /fc/pages/refmapages/acadfree.html   (3326 words)

  
 Academic Freedom in the USA
In practice, the notion of academic freedom is invoked to justify statements by faculty that offend politicians, religious leaders, corporate executives, parents of students, and citizens.
Academic freedom does not mean freedom from academic responsibility to students, colleagues and the orderly administration of the university.
A history of academic freedom in the USA from 1865 to 1917, the time during which ideas of academic freedom were imported from Germany and the time during which the modern university devoted to scholarly research began to appear in the USA.
www.rbs2.com /afree.htm#anchor111111   (9377 words)

  
 AAUP 1940 Statement on Academic Freedom & Tenure
Both the protection of academic freedom and the requirements of academic responsibility apply not only to the full-time probationary as well as to the tenured teacher, but also to all others, such as part-time faculty and teaching assistants, who exercise teaching responsibilities.
The freedom of probationary teachers is enhanced by the establishment of a regular procedure for the periodic evaluation and assessment of the teacher's academic performance during probationary status.
A further specification of the academic due process to which the teacher is entitled under this paragraph is contained in the Statement on Procedural Standards in Faculty Dismissal Proceedings, jointly approved by the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges in 1958.
www.higher-ed.org /resources/AAUP_1940stat.htm   (2649 words)

  
 Inside Higher Ed :: Academic Freedom vs. First Amendment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Academic freedom is intended to give educators the leeway to openly discuss issues, albeit some controversial, in an open and collegial arena.
Academic freedom should not afford an educator acting in an administrative position the opportunity to poison the working environment to the point that disruptive conflicts arise.
The former is not about academic freedom and saying it is undermines the real concept of academic freedom, which has nothing to do with protecting administrators who don’t like their bosses but yet don’t want to resign in protest.
www.insidehighered.com /news/2005/11/02/speech   (1902 words)

  
 NoIndoctrination.org - Academic Freedom
Academic Freedom: "right of scholars to pursue research, to teach, and to publish without control or restraint from the institutions that employ them.
The statements by the AAUP are generally recognized as the official statements on academic freedom, professional ethics, and professional responsibility.
"Academic freedom carries with it a concomitant responsibility of scholars to resist corrupting influences on their research and teaching, to transcend partisanship and prejudice, and to foster intellectually vigorous and open discussion within the classroom, adhering to the highest norms and standards of scholarly inquiry and teaching.
www.noindoctrination.org /acadf.shtml   (1437 words)

  
 College Freedom
The lawsuit was a disaster for academic freedom, but the new policy gives faculty the power to decide if an accommodation is granted.
But revoking that freedom because a handful of students don’t like their professors is an invitation to censorship of the worst kind.
Freedom of expression isn’t an outrageous idea, and colleges shouldn’t be condemned by the right for encouraging it.
collegefreedom.blogspot.com   (1695 words)

  
 AAUP-Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure —; The Association's key statement on two core issues, endorsed by 186 national scholarly and educational associations.
Academic Freedom and National Security in a Time of Crisis In 2002, the AAUP announced the creation of a special committee to review and analyze post-September 11 developments which impinge on academic freedom.
Resources on Academic Freedom The AAUP offers a wide range of resources on academic freedom, including policy statements, reports on related topics, legal resources on academic freedom and tenure issues, and articles from Academe and other sources.
www.aaup.org /com-a   (310 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: 'Academic freedom'? by Thomas Sowell - Feb 15, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In this era of dumbed-down education, when rhetoric has replaced both logic and evidence for many people, some think the issue is "freedom of speech." Indeed, some critics of Professor Churchill have been shouted down by his supporters, in the name of freedom of speech.
Unfortunately, many of those who talk the loudest and longest about "freedom of speech" and "academic freedom" are in fact trying to justify the imposition of propaganda on a captive audience in our schools and colleges.
Over the years, the notion of academic freedom has expanded beyond autonomy within one's academic field to faculty governance of colleges and universities in general.
www.townhall.com /columnists/thomassowell/ts20050215.shtml   (842 words)

  
 BYU (Brigham Young University) and academic freedom - the aaup and BYU
The climate for academic freedom at Brigham Young University is "distressingly poor" and infringements widespread, the American Association of University Professors said in a report issued today.
The 45,000 members of AAUP, national faculty group committed to academic freedom on campuses, are to vote next June on whether to censure BYU's administration.
Several other cases of academic freedom violations are mentioned in the AAUP report, though investigators said they heard so many complaints during their interviews with more than 100 individuals that not every one was outlined.
www.lds-mormon.com /byu_aaup.shtml   (628 words)

  
 Thomas Sowell
While this column is protected by freedom of speech, that does not stop any editor from getting rid of it if he doesn't like what I say.
There is nothing in specialized academic expertise which makes professors' opinions on issues outside their specialty any better than anyone else's opinions.
The combination of tenure and academic self-governance is unique — and explains much of the atmosphere of self-indulgence and irresponsibility on campus, of which Professor Ward Churchill is just one extreme example.
www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/sowell021505.asp   (743 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Pennsylvania's Historic Academic Freedom Hearings by David French   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the distorted world of university censorship, actual violations of the law (such as Brooklyn College’s absurd punishment of dissenting students) represent legitimate exercises of academic freedom, while free speech (such as the New York Sun investigation) is the equivalent of “intimidation” that has a “chilling effect” on academic expression.
The question is not whether an individual professor teaches in a provocative manner but instead whether that professor has the academic freedom to teach his or her subject and whether students have the academic freedom to dissent from that teaching without suffering retaliation.
Because that is the core academic freedom function of a professor.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19984   (6400 words)

  
 EFF: Computers & Academic Freedom
This is an on-line collection of general academic freedom statements.
This is a directory of book references related to Computers and Academic Freedom or mentioned in the CAF discussion.
This is an on-line collection of law related to computers and academic freedom.
www.eff.org /Censorship/Academic_edu/CAF   (698 words)

  
 Academic Freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Academic freedom and diverse viewpoints are highly valued at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.
Within the bounds of this definition, academic freedom requires that members of the faculty must have complete freedom to study, to learn, to do research, and to communicate the results of these pursuits to others.
As members of the academic community, students have responsibility, equivalent to that of the faculty, for study, learning, academic integrity, and protecting the university as a forum for the free expression of ideas.”
www.cudenver.edu /Academics/AcademicFreedom.htm   (422 words)

  
 Mirror of Justice: Academic Freedom
Freedom in the Catholic tradition, and even in the American political tradition, is not the right to do anything.
Freedom in the Catholic tradition is not the right to do this rather than that.
Freedom in the academy is always subject to a particular discipline.
www.mirrorofjustice.com /mirrorofjustice/2005/02/academic_freedo.html   (1311 words)

  
 Inside Higher Ed :: Academic Freedom Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Academic freedom is getting more public attention that it has in many years.
But after examining the history of academic freedom, he turned to the question of what faculty members should do (or not do) in terms of pushing their views in the classroom.
In fact, there are few academics who tolerate authoritarianism of any kind—it’s anathema to their very existence as scholars.
www.insidehighered.com /news/2005/03/25/acfreedom   (2410 words)

  
 Academic Freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Freedom of the Student Press / Academic Freedom for Students /
Academic Freedom for Faculty / Academic Freedom History / Academic Freedom Around the World / Academic Freedom in K-12 Schools /
Academic Freedom and Religion / Academic Freedom Bibliography
www.collegefreedom.org   (128 words)

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