They are already losing the support for academic freedom and spirited teaching that tenure protects.
It provoked outcry among some scientists who said their academic freedom was being restricted.
And, most of all, without denigrating academic freedom for any professor, be accountable to more than yourself.
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An academic freedom watchdog group, FIRE, wrote to UC Davis chancellor Linda Katehi with the same requests.
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Klaffter justified his physical denial of Tanenbaum's freedom of speech by claiming that he was defending academic freedom.
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The American University in Cairo also condemned Mr Ibrahim's arrest as a threat to academic freedom in Egypt.
Both reports were attacked by the media and by the professoriate as cheap, academically shoddy attempts to harm academic freedom.
It also has a committee in place to investigate any breaches of its guarantees from the government to protect academic freedom.
Academic freedom is often cited in defense of questionable behaviors, but this case goes to the very heart of what academic freedom is all about.
All of this is documented in a report issued this past May by the UC Davis faculty Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (CAFR).
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For himself, Mr. Lewis said he is "confident of researchers' ability to pursue their scholarship freely" in Singapore, and that he was given assurances from both the government and NUS regarding academic freedom.
Among various theories, the academic freedom of professors is often emphasized, while the academic freedom of institutions is misunderstood, the academic freedom of departments is forgotten, and the academic freedom of students is ignored.
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Mr. Lewis, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale until he was named president of the new college in May, said the new venture has received assurances from the Singapore government regarding academic freedom.
Along with an entrenched and historic reputation for academic freedom, US universities also continue to be some of the wealthiest in the world, and are able to command high tuition fees and often large donations from wealthy alumni, he says.
One such policy suggests that colleges reform their academic employment policies by replacing tenure with one of a number of alternatives that would preserve the holy grail of higher education, academic freedom, which is necessary to prevent faculty from being arbitrarily dismissed for saying or writing things that administrators or influential outsiders consider wrong or offensive.
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Boston College has spent months arguing in federal court that turning over the archive material would infringe upon academic and journalistic freedom.
Given the popularity of the term, and its dangerous appearance in U.S. economic and academic debates, champions of freedom, intellectual entrepreneurs, and scholars should focus more on social justice.
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The bill was presented by Justice Secretary Ken Clarke in March, following concerns that existing libel laws were damaging freedom of expression in scientific and academic debate.
The draft bill was presented by Justice Secretary Ken Clarke in March, following concerns that existing libel laws were damaging freedom of expression in scientific and academic debate.
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I'm all in favour of grammar schools where they exist and indeed I think schools should have the freedom to select if necessary, on the basis of academic ability.
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At the start of this academic year, the Scottish government introduced the Curriculum for Excellence, aimed at giving teachers more freedom and make lessons less prescriptive for children between the ages of three and 18.
He spent his working life largely at Harvard, relishing the intellectual fizz as the wartime generation returned to study, using wisely the great freedom granted to tenured professors like himself, but increasingly disgusted in later years by academic trendiness and moral cowardice.
He was also the main benefactor of the Freedom Writers program, which was started in Long Beach in 1997 as an initiative to improve the academic outlook of students in poor communities.
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