They are already losing the support for academic freedom and spirited teaching that tenure protects.
The London School of Economics (LSE) cited concerns about restrictions that "threatened academic freedom".
It provoked outcry among some scientists who said their academic freedom was being restricted.
That tactic, which looked to many like an attempt to restrict academic freedom, backfired.
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.
Claiming that doing so would restrict academic freedom, the propaganda war against the Jewish state went forward and grew.
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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Ms. Castor is rightly accused of running interference for al-Arian when he was a professor at her university, helping him hide his jihadist proselytizing and organizing behind the cloak of academic freedom.
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.
Now the leftist screechers are demanding that Wiesenfeld be removed from the board of trustees because by professing an opinion they don't like, he has destroyed what passes for academic freedom in their twisted little Orwellian world.
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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.
Haifa could face the same sanction if it does not commit to "upholding academic freedom, and in particular ceases its victimisation of academic staff and students who seek to research and discuss the history of the founding of the state of Israel".
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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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The Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), the brainchild of the LFF, with the support of the notorious Discovery Institute, and signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal in 2008, effectively allows creationists in towns and districts to introduce creation science and intelligent design theory (ID) into the public school science classes under the guise of academic freedom.
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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But what I've always banked on is that they will respect my freedom of speech in an academic environment and they will separate my personal views from the job I do.
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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Labour rebels, who fear greater freedom from local authorities could mean a "back-door" return to academic selection at age 11, want a national code on admissions to be made legally binding.
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