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Dispatches on academic freedom

BY SHANNON DEA | FEB 11 2019

Should there be a separate conception of academic freedom for precarious and independent scholars?

BY SHANNON DEA | JAN 18 2019

Because we most often invoke it when it’s threatened, we tend to focus more on the rights associated with academic freedom than on the reason we have it to begin with.

BY SHANNON DEA | DEC 14 2018

For reasons of naiveté or worse, the media and the public have been taken in by the view that there is a free speech crisis on campus.

BY SHANNON DEA | NOV 19 2018

Understanding what academic freedom is ideally meant to do can help us understand its contours, and how to best defend it.

BY SHANNON DEA | OCT 09 2018

If engaging with the public is indeed part of the job of the professor, then universities ought to protect professors who take up the task.

BY SHANNON DEA | SEP 05 2018

A better understanding of the mission of universities, and of the role that academic freedom plays within that mission, puts us in a better position to support university scholars and the work that they do.

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