Academic Freedom
Academic freedom is a moral and legal concept expressing the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment. While the core of academic freedom covers scholars acting in an academic capacity - as teachers or researchers expressing strictly scholarly viewpoints -, an expansive interpretation extends these occupational safeguards to scholars' …
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AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 26 August 2024 English
Academic associations have a long history of connecting scholars and promoting scholarship, but too many today have traded their scholarly mission for a political one. Of the 99 academic associations …
” adding that “the ASA supports members’ academic freedom, including but not limited to defending scholars’ …
The New Zealand Initiative · 21 August 2024 English
their views; in the Education and Training Act, where it is defined • A variety of different academic freedom incidents partly as the freedom to ‘state controversial and unpopular have occurred in recent … strong presence in New Zealand academia, especially the • There should be an annual audit of academic freedom Humanities and Education. [...] Born in Canada, he earned a BA in classics at Oxford and a Master’s …
Unpopular Opinion Academic Freedom in New Zealand Dr James Kierstead Academic freedom is crucial to the … where it is defined • A variety of different academic freedom incidents partly as the freedom to ‘state … deplatformed, events being cancelled, and academics academic freedom, serving as a safe haven for Sir Karl being … his famous The Open Society • Most of our academic freedom incidents involved and its Enemies during … issues and the nature of sex Despite this, academic freedom is now under threat in New and gender, rather …
The New Zealand Initiative · 21 August 2024 English
Academic freedom is a subset of the freedom of speech or expression, a freedom that is enumerated both in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the New Zealand Bill of Rights. [...] THE NEW … NEW ZEALAND INITIATIVE 15 Academic freedom in the Education and Training Act In the Education and Training Act, section 267, academic freedom is defined as including: '(a) the freedom of academic staff … assess students in the manner that they consider best promotes learning’ as being components of academic freedom held collectively by the institutions and their staff. …
EDUCATION UNPOPULAR OPINIONS Academic Freedom in New Zealand James Kierstead Foreword by Grant Schofield … http://www.nzinitiative.org.nz UNPOPULAR OPINIONS Academic Freedom in New Zealand James Kierstead Foreword by … 32 CHAPTER 3 Academic Freedom Incidents 43 PART II: THE MAIN THREATS TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM 86 CHAPTER 4 … they felt free to enact various aspects of academic freedom in Figure 13, aggregated across all aspects … and do so in a constructive, rational way. Academic freedom, as defined by the Education and Training …
Amnesty International · 21 August 2024 English
During the 2023–2024 academic year, authorities of the United Arab Emirates and the administration of New York University both acted to suppress and punish freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and …
News, “‘Extremely disturbing’: Concerns over academic freedom at NYU Abu Dhabi surface following policies … 3 Washington Square News, “Concerns over academic freedom at NYU Abu Dhabi” (previously cited).Amnesty … challenge to any university’s commitment to academic freedom and freedom of expression, as well as its … should: • provide “effective support for academic freedom and fundamental human rights” to students … restriction owing to the exercise of their academic freedom.14 The responsibilities of universities to …
EU: European Union · 14 August 2024 English
knowledge and expression and by violating academic freedom. 22 Federația Organizațiilor Ortodoxe … ban on information about gender identity: Academic freedom consists of the freedom of students, professors …
UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation · 9 August 2024 English
[Forthcoming]. Which countries recognize academic freedom for higher education in national legislation …
UN: The United Nations · 9 August 2024 Russian
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sanctioning States on the right to education and academic freedom, exacerbating fear and overcompliance. 51 … innovation, and impose conditionalities on academic freedom and on the right to benefit from results of … rights to education, freedom of expression and academic freedom, and the right of everyone to enjoy the benefits …
UN: The United Nations · 9 August 2024 English
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sanctioning States on the right to education and academic freedom, exacerbating fear and overcompliance. 51 … innovation, and impose conditionalities on academic freedom and on the right to benefit from results of … rights to education, freedom of expression and academic freedom, and the right of everyone to enjoy the benefits …
UN: The United Nations · 9 August 2024 French
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sanctioning States on the right to education and academic freedom, exacerbating fear and overcompliance. 51 … innovation, and impose conditionalities on academic freedom and on the right to benefit from results of … rights to education, freedom of expression and academic freedom, and the right of everyone to enjoy the benefits …
UN: The United Nations · 9 August 2024 English
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sanctioning States on the right to education and academic freedom, exacerbating fear and overcompliance. 51 … innovation, and impose conditionalities on academic freedom and on the right to benefit from results of … rights to education, freedom of expression and academic freedom, and the right of everyone to enjoy the benefits …
