Inside Higher Ed: Academic Freedom Under Many Assaults
“Academic freedom,” that is, the inalienable right of every college instructor to make a fool of himself and his college by vealy, intemperate, sensational prattle about every subject under heaven, to his classes and to the public, and still keep on the payroll or be reft therefrom only by elaborate process, is cried to all the winds by the organized dons.
NEW YORK CITY — In prefacing his remarks with The New York Times’ response to the American Association of University Professors’ first report on academic freedom, Robert M. O’Neil set up his argument that academic freedom has since — but only relatively recently; hence the Times‘ scathing tone less than a century ago — evolved into a “canonical value.”
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