The Texas Way: UT faculty group issues new definition of 'academic freedom'

At top leadership's direction, UT faculty crafted a statement on academic integrity, saying colleges must create a culture of ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

“The real meaning of academic freedom.”

On Friday, UC Davis Provost Ralph Hexter issued this statement on academic freedom: In March, 1953 the Association of American Universities (AAU) adopted a statement articulating “The Rights and ...
The Assembly NC

UNC System Faculty Seek to Define ‘Academic Freedom’

Amid growing concern about academic freedom, a faculty group wants UNC officials to be more precise about what activities are protected.
The Middletown Press

Why left and right both get the meaning of academic freedom wrong

When historians write about the rise of academic freedom in the United States, they usually describe a movement championed by left-leaning intellectuals. But in recent years, the cause has also gained ...

What both sides of America’s polarized divide share: Deep anxieties about the meaning of life and existence itself

Though the content of these expressions can be ideologically opposed, each reflects deeper concerns about societal fate, death or the end of a meaningful way of life. Unspoken but underlying is the ...