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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ifo: Ifo Institute for Economic Research · 16 April 2024 German

Schnelldienst 4-2024

Umsetzung der Zukunftsstrategie sen durch den Academic Freedom Index (Kinzelbach et zu begleiten. al. 2024) Kinzelbach, K., S. I. Lindberg und L. Lott (2024), Academic Freedom Index 2024 Update, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and


EUA: European University Association · 8 April 2024 English

Exploring the various facets of universities’ impact, the conference covered issues as diverse as rankings, excellence and the quest for quality, greening and sustainability, innovation and supporting endangered scholars and …

also included a chapter on provisions for academic freedom in national legislation. Following the publication


CPI: The Center for Public Integrity · 5 April 2024

Judges ruling on that law quoted from the dystopian novel 1984 in the first line of their deci- sion: “‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks …

REPORTING ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM A guide for student journalists Trade: Business From the Center for Public As part of our reporting about attacks on academic freedom, we want to help you investigate what’s happen- INTEGRITY | ACADEMIC FREEDOM https://publicintegrity.org/topics/education/academic-freedom/ https://publicintegrity https://publicintegrity.org/topics/education/academic-freedom/ Table of contents Getting up to speed 4 How to PUBLIC INTEGRITY | ACADEMIC FREEDOM | 3 Getting up to speed What is academic freedom, anyway? The American


NWSA: National Women's Studies Association · 4 April 2024 English

Political fights over higher education’s purpose continue to roil institutions throughout the United States. These specific attempts to curtail our field are occurring within a broader national context that is …

of forced mergers, the urgency to protect academic freedom, WGSS, and other social justice aligned disciplines


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 1 April 2024 English

It is important to highlight that, in this framework, nutrition plays a huge role, and the outcome of a sustainable production system is not only the quantity of food generated, …

Freedom of access to knowledge and data. 4. Academic freedom. 5. Creation of a critical mass of scientists


IGCC: UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation · 1 April 2024 English

IGCC • MERICS • April 2024 The Communist Party’s Steering of China’s Science, Technology, and Innovation System: Aspirations and Reality 3 Introduction After decades of Reform and Opening Up, the …

Conroy, “US Extends a Rock and a Hard Place: Academic Freedom in Science Pact With China: What it Means


SAR: Scholars at Risk Network · 28 March 2024 Spanish

5 Entre otras recomendaciones de la UNESCO pertinentes a la libertad académica se encuentra la Recomendación Revisada sobre la Educación para la Comprensión, la Cooperación y la Paz Internacionales y …

- Principles for Implementing the Right of Academic Freedom _March2024 P rincipios para la aplicación 9 A ppendix I Appendix II Working Group on Academic Freedom 0 P rincipios para la aplicación del derecho


SAR: Scholars at Risk Network · 28 March 2024 English

In the context of academic freedom, social responsibility is the duty to exercise and enjoy academic freedom, consistent with the obligation to seek truth and impart information according to ethical and of all members of society. [...] S tates are obligated to r espect, protect, and promote the academic freedom of students , as members of education communities or in their individual pursuits, to conduct dissolution of student associations, unions, and assemblies, by state and non-state actors, undermine academic freedom. [...] Everyone has a right and responsibility, individually and in association with others

Working Group on Academic Freedom 0 Principles for Implementing the Right to Academic Freedom, March 20234 protection of academic freedom under international law. 1 A Working Group on Academic Freedom (WGAF), drawing of monitoring and protection mechanisms for academic freedom across all levels and mechanisms of the United ‘Principles for Implementing the Right to Academic Freedom,’ inviting input and consultation from a wide interested or engaged in t he protection of academic freedom. The draft Principles were then widely distributed


SAR: Scholars at Risk Network · 28 March 2024 French

La protection de la liberté académique doit inclure l a liberté d’accès à l’information, de diffusion et de production de celle-ci, la liberté de pensée, la liberté de développer, d …

9 A ppendix I Appendix II Working Group on Academic Freedom 0 P rincipes de mise en œuvre du droit à la académique (WGAF selon l’anglais Working Group on Academic Freedom ), puisant dans l’expertise acquise dans le iberté d’opinion et d’expression C oalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas M ikel Mancisidor L ena Naumkina


EU: European Union · 27 March 2024 English

thrive, regardless of background, and enjoy academic freedom, in line with democratic principles. Academic That is why effective social dialogue and academic freedom are necessary supportive elements to achieve recent study, analysing the self-perception of academic freedom by 4,000 academic staff in EU countries, Any incidents that could possibly undermine academic freedom may hamper academic work, which takes place 1787/ea9d3108-en. 18 Karran, T. & K. Beiter (2020), ‘Academic freedom in the European Union: legalities and realities’


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