Top Academic Freedom Quotes Collection
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While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault.Collection: Academic Freedom
There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of a university than how much money is spent on infrastructure or on hiring big names. Faculty need to have the space to pursue the research that they are passionate about and the also need to have the freedom to express their opinions in the university, and in the society as a whole.Collection: Academic Freedom
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.Collection: Academic Freedom
When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.Collection: Academic Freedom
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.Collection: Academic Freedom
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.Collection: Academic Freedom